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+ '''18. [#18 What kind of hardware scales best for Hadoop?]'''
+ The short answer is dual processor/dual core machines with 4-8GB of RAM using ECC memory. Machines should be moderately high-end commodity machines to be most cost-effective and typically cost 1/2 - 2/3 the cost of normal production application servers but are not desktop-class machines. This cost tends to be $2-5K. For a more detailed discussion, see MachineScaling page.
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