Does anyone know any free accessible clusters that are open to public and that use a Hadoop/MapReduce framework? There are plenty of tutorials of how to use MapReduce, but is there a way to test the examples without using my local single machine and installing the required framework?
Thanks!
Amazon EC2 has ready to use Hadoop cluster for per time rent, not very expensive even for play. Other way is to play with Cloudera Hadoop VM http://www.cloudera.com/downloads/virtual-machine/. You can run cluster on several virtual machines.