What you need for this book

You will need a single Linux-based machine with JDK 1.6 or later installed. Any recent version of the Apache Hadoop 2 distribution will be sufficient to set up a YARN cluster and run some examples on top of YARN.

The code in this book has been tested on CentOS 6.4 but will run on other variants of Linux.

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