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diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md index 154ad42d49..cdc96200a8 100644 --- a/docs/index.md +++ b/docs/index.md @@ -7,7 +7,11 @@ title: Spark Overview TODO(andyk): Rewrite to make the Java API a first class part of the story. {% endcomment %} -Spark is a MapReduce-like cluster computing framework designed for low-latency iterative jobs and interactive use from an interpreter. It provides clean, language-integrated APIs in Scala and Java, with a rich array of parallel operators. Spark can run on top of the [Apache Mesos](http://incubator.apache.org/mesos/) cluster manager, Hadoop YARN, Amazon EC2, or without an independent resource manager ("standalone mode"). +Spark is a MapReduce-like cluster computing framework designed for low-latency iterative jobs and interactive use from an +interpreter. It provides clean, language-integrated APIs in Scala and Java, with a rich array of parallel operators. Spark can +run on top of the [Apache Mesos](http://incubator.apache.org/mesos/) cluster manager, +[Hadoop YARN](http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.0.1-alpha/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/YARN.html), +Amazon EC2, or without an independent resource manager ("standalone mode"). # Downloading @@ -33,7 +37,7 @@ For example, `./run spark.examples.SparkPi` will run a sample program that estim examples prints usage help if no params are given. Note that all of the sample programs take a `<master>` parameter specifying the cluster URL -to connect to. This can be a [URL for a distributed cluster]({{HOME_PATH}}scala-programming-guide.html#master_urls), +to connect to. This can be a [URL for a distributed cluster]({{HOME_PATH}}scala-programming-guide.html#master-urls), or `local` to run locally with one thread, or `local[N]` to run locally with N threads. You should start by using `local` for testing. |