##About Apache BigTop v1.1 on Power: Ubuntu 14.04

####This README describes some scripts and tools to get the Apache BigTop v 1.1 bundle up and running quickly with minimum intervention required. IBM uses Apache BigTop for one of their Big Data Analytics Hadoop-Spark solutions. Zeppelin is an excellent notebook used to showcase benchmark workloads.

#####The install_bigtop.sh script downloads, installs, and configures the following components:

• Java Open JDK 1.8
• Apache Bigtop v1.1
  • Hadoop v2.7.1
  • Spark v1.5.1
  • Zeppelin v0.5.6
  • Bigtop-groovy v2.4.4
  • jsvc v1.0.15
  • Tomcat v6.0.36
  • Zookeeper v3.4.6
• Scala v2.10.4

 	Downloads, installs, configures, and starts all of the components listed above.

  Prepares the system for the install_bigtop.sh.

Note: If the ~/bigtop/source directory is present, remove it manually prior to running the install_bigtop.sh script

  A convenient way to restart all BigTop components.

 JPS does not automatically produce the component status. This script will report BigTop component current status.

 A quick workload provided to verify that Spark is working as desired.

 A quick test script to aid in verifying the Hadoop configuration.

https://github.com/ibmsoe/bigtop/blob/master/docs

Documentation is available in the docs/ directory.

• Instructions on how to get started on IBM’s SoftLayer Bare Metal Systems
• Information on how to use the scripts provided in this folder to quickly download, install, and configure a BigTop Hadoop – Spark environment.
• How to access Zeppelin notebooks and run a provided Tutorial workload.
• Information on how to optimize Spark properties through the Zeppelin Interpret
• Directions to upload then run the Sample Stock_workload.

Hadoop-Spark is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0