]> 2011-09-20T10:30:00-05:00 2011-09-20T12:00:00-05:00 You are encouraged to do the following before the meeting if you want to code along.

• Review the Yahoo Introduction to MapReduce tutorial
• Download a free virtual machine image with Hadoop pre-installed, so you can get started quickly. Options are available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
• Make sure you have JDK 1.6x and Eclipse (or your favourite IDE) installed on your laptop.

Addenda (9/19):

• If you are planning to code along during the demo, download the latest stable release of Hadoop (0.20.2)
• Some people have been having problems with Cloudera's 64 bit VM image. If you do, try this virtual machine from Yahoo Developer Network that contains a pre-installed hadoop 0.20.
• Even if you are not able to get the VM running for now, you can still run the program(s) locally on your laptop using Eclipse.

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