Clusters available for using Hadoop/MapReduce framework [closed]

Question

Does anyone know any free accessible clusters that are open to public and that use a Hadoop/MapReduce framework? There are plenty of tutorials of how to use MapReduce, but is there a way to test the examples without using my local single machine and installing the required framework?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Amazon EC2 has ready to use Hadoop cluster for per time rent, not very expensive even for play. Other way is to play with Cloudera Hadoop VM http://www.cloudera.com/downloads/virtual-machine/. You can run cluster on several virtual machines.