Budget 21-30k WorkStation- Cloudera CDH,Spark Standalone

thrift

Disciple
Hi Guys,
A friend of mine needs to build a WorkStation exclusively to work on Apache Spark ,Cloudera CDH(QuickStart) along with Autodesk Maya.He is tight on budget though.
  1. What is your budget?
    • 25K
  2. What is your existing hardware configuration (component name - component brand and model)
    • Monitor - Sony Bravia 22" 1080p LED(HDMI)
  3. Which hardware will you be keeping (component name - component brand and model)
    • Monitor - Sony Bravia 22" 1080p LED(HDMI)
  4. Which hardware component are you looking to buy (component name). If you have already decided on a configuration then please mention the (component brand and model) as well, this will help us in fine tuning your requirement.
    • CPU - AMD FX-6300
    • Motherboard - ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3
    • GPU - Onboard
    • RAM - (8+4)Kingston Hyperx Fury 1866mhz
    • PSU - CORSAIR VS-450 CP-9020096-UK 450 Watts
    • HDD-WD Caviar Green 1 TB
  5. Is this going to be your final configuration or you would be adding/upgrading a component in near future. If yes then please mention when and which component
    • GPU in case the need arises(Is the onboard sufficient for Maya?)
  6. Where will you buy this hardware? (Online/City/TE Dealer)
    • Online
  7. Would you consider buying a second hand hardware from the TE market
    • No
  8. What is your intended use for this PC/hardware
    • Spark (standalone mode) coupled with Cloudera CDH.(Small/medium size datasets)
    • Autodesk Maya
    • No Gaming
  9. Do you have any brand preference or dislike? Please name them and the reason for your preference/dislike.
    • None
  10. If you will be playing games then which type of games will you be playing?
    • None
  11. What is your preferred monitor resolution for gaming and normal usage
    1. HD
  12. Are you looking to overclock?
    • No
  13. Which operating system do you intend to use with this configuration?
    • Dual boot (Centos/ Win7 64 bit)
 
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  • CPU - AMD FX-6300 -7500,
  • Motherboard - Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3 -4900,
  • RAM - Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB 1866Mhz -3200,
  • PSU - Antec VP550P -3800,
  • HDD-WD Caviar Blue 1 TB -3500,
  • Cabinet - Deepcool Tesseract BF -2800.
  • TOTAL -25,700.
Don't ever go with Corsair VS Series PSU's.
 
Wouldn't the M5A78L be a better choice considering RAM support for up to1866Mhz?Any specific reason for the Gigabyte mobo(better support than Asus?)
Any advice on budget professional GPU's ? Thanks
 
One of our requirements now is to RDP into this home system,for which I am planning to run a type 1 hypervisor and boot a Windows Vm (with GPU passthrough for Maya) and a Centos VM.
Is this the right approach ?
If needed will upgrade the CPU to fx8350 and bump up the ram to 32gigs.
 
I am not sure if VMs are the right approach for Maya. From what I know little of Maya, it was pretty heavy on system resources.

Spark on the other hand - I think you can go the VM route.

If you are going to use Windows 8/10, then it has Hyper V inbuilt.
 
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