Hadoop : Single Node Setup

Prerequisites

Supported Platforms

• GNU/Linux is supported as a development and production platform. Hadoop has been demonstrated on GNU/Linux clusters with 2000 nodes.
• Win32 is supported as a development platform. Distributed operation has not been well tested on Win32, so it is not supported as a production platform.

Required Software

Required software for Linux and Windows include:

1. Java^TM 1.6.x, preferably from Sun, must be installed.
2. ssh must be installed and sshd must be running to use the Hadoop scripts that manage remote Hadoop daemons.

Additional requirements for Windows include:

1. Cygwin - Required for shell support in addition to the required software above.