Week 6 Updates

Hello Readers,

Sorry for the late post. This is for last week. I'll just give a very brief overview of what I did.

I wrote a naive implementation of the Page Rank algorithm in a Java program utilizing Spark's libraries. I plan to test it using a small set of sample web pages. I will run it on Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 servers. I made an AWS account recently and basically it allows you to use virtual servers for use in development, computation, storage, and networking. As long as you stay under 750 hours/month, it is free for the first year of use.

I also wrote a naive implementation of a simple word count program in Java that also utilizes Spark, but this was more for getting familiar with Spark in Java than it was for the actual project. The word count program is Spark's 'Hello World' program.

Finally, I worked on resolving certain issues within my Virtual Box that pertained to importing an AWS security key into my local disk in order to be able to run instances of EC2 servers from a program.

Anyway, if you have any questions or comments please feel free to leave a comment below and I will try to get back to you as soon as possible. Same goes for any clarification of topics or concepts.

Thanks for reading and have a great day!