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Book on How to Cluster some Pis with Hadoop

To be honest and straightforward I expected more from a book with title like Raspberry Pi Super Cluster . The author Andrew K. Denis has a very clear vision on the subject (like in his previous book Raspberry Pi Home Automation with Arduino , which I liked a lot) . He's done his best to deliver an exhaustive set-up while being concise at the same time, but it seems to me, this clearly is the wrong format for a book on the given topic. Stack Pis for parallel power Now having this book at hand, I finally got the chance to answer many of the questions I had about clustering, and how it can be applied to a set of Raspberry Pis. The first impression is that it is very well structured and gradual. Lets see, the first two chapters are short introductions to parallel computing (background history and the contemporary systems) and the initial set-up respectively. They're short and to the point. And that's the way it should be - it is presumed that if you're going paralle