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  "id": 2393,
  "title": "Is there any deal of cloud computing?",
  "url": "/competitions/acm-sf-chapter-hackathon-big/discussion/2393",
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  "post_date": "2012-08-20T18:27:30.937Z",
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  "content": "<p>Yeah, I see Microsoft and Amazon are sponsors.</p>",
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      "postDate": "08/20/2012 18:27:30",
      "content": "<p>Yeah, I see Microsoft and Amazon are sponsors.</p>",
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      "id": "13243",
      "postDate": "08/20/2012 18:32:45",
      "content": "<p>The cloud compute sponsorship currently only applies to the members of the ACM Bay-Area chapter. &nbsp;They've kindly agreed to make the competition public, but the amount of compute sponsorship available is limited.</p>",
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      "postDate": "08/23/2012 14:40:17",
      "content": "<p>I can open this up -- I have quite a few credits for AWS I can hand out.</p>\r\n<p>I will follow up with the other sponsors and see what they want to do as well so I can post their information</p>\r\n<p>ping me if you are interested.&nbsp; I will make another post about this.</p>\r\n<p>nick@bigdatarlinux.com</p>",
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      "postDate": "09/08/2012 05:41:34",
      "content": "<p>HPCloud sponsored compute time for this contest too. Using the Hadoop cluster system I developed at MetaZeta.com, I assembled a shared 5 node cluster. The cluster is running the latest Cloudera distribution and setup for Map Reduce v1, Hive, Pig, and Mahout.\r\n</p>\r\n<p>The cluster will stay up until the contest deadline, so your files will be conveniently stored in HDFS and file permissions can allow or disallow visibility between users. All the competition data files are pre-loaded and expanded with read-only access.\r\n</p>\r\n<p>To request an account for this competition: send an email to peb AT baclace.net and put &quot;hackathon&quot; in the subject (otherwise I probably won't see the message).\r\n</p>\r\n<p>Paul</p>",
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      "author_name": "glider",
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      "post_date": "08/20/2012 18:32:45",
      "content": "<p>The cloud compute sponsorship currently only applies to the members of the ACM Bay-Area chapter. &nbsp;They've kindly agreed to make the competition public, but the amount of compute sponsorship available is limited.</p>",
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      "id": 13362,
      "author_name": "nickkolegraff",
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      "post_date": "08/23/2012 14:40:17",
      "content": "<p>I can open this up -- I have quite a few credits for AWS I can hand out.</p>\r\n<p>I will follow up with the other sponsors and see what they want to do as well so I can post their information</p>\r\n<p>ping me if you are interested.&nbsp; I will make another post about this.</p>\r\n<p>nick@bigdatarlinux.com</p>",
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      "id": 14093,
      "author_name": "paulbaclace",
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      "post_date": "09/08/2012 05:41:34",
      "content": "<p>HPCloud sponsored compute time for this contest too. Using the Hadoop cluster system I developed at MetaZeta.com, I assembled a shared 5 node cluster. The cluster is running the latest Cloudera distribution and setup for Map Reduce v1, Hive, Pig, and Mahout.\r\n</p>\r\n<p>The cluster will stay up until the contest deadline, so your files will be conveniently stored in HDFS and file permissions can allow or disallow visibility between users. All the competition data files are pre-loaded and expanded with read-only access.\r\n</p>\r\n<p>To request an account for this competition: send an email to peb AT baclace.net and put &quot;hackathon&quot; in the subject (otherwise I probably won't see the message).\r\n</p>\r\n<p>Paul</p>",
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