setup an cluster in azure

[TonyAbell]

Looking at the examples it looks like one can pass in a PrajnaClusterFile

I can not see a sample Prajna Cluster File.

Also, it is not clear how to setup a cluster in a cloud provider like Azure, any guidance would be appreciated.

[zhuweirong]

Thanks Tony. Yes, we are aware of the lack of information on how to setup a cluster. We are in the process of providing the instructions/scripts for various scenarios. It will start with a cluster of windows domain joined machines, then we will also provide similar instructions/scripts for Azure.

[antogh]

Hello Weirong Zhu,
please, if you can , try to give us a simplified cluster setup like Spark standalone (described here)
http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/spark-standalone.html
this way even solo/small developers can test Prajna in their free time at home on their own pc or group of pcs without having to use expensive server licenses or cloud subscription (with credit card => $$$), that's good for production but for just taking confidence with the suite something simple I believe would really help this new product to spread rapidly.
One more question, I'm just curious, Spark is known to be built on top of Akka with Scala, Prajna was written in F# (quite similar to scala). Did you use also an actor model framework like Akka? If yes what did you use? Thanks. Antonio

[zhuweirong]

Hi antogh,

Currently, the deployment instruction we have is similar to Spark's standalone mode. Please check out https://github.com/MSRCCS/Prajna/wiki/Use-Prajna (also specifically for deployment: https://github.com/MSRCCS/Prajna/wiki/Deploy-Prajna). Please let us know if you hit any problems.

Regarding to questions on Prajna internals, please refer to http://msrccs.github.io/Prajna/paper/Prajna_v1.pdf for Prajna technical implementation details.

Thanks!