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Anaconda Scale
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Distributed Computing
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Anaconda Scale provides functionality to easily deploy Anaconda packages and a
distributed computation framework across a cluster. It helps you manage multiple
conda environments and packages (including Python and R) on cluster nodes.

Anaconda Scale can be used with distributed computation frameworks such as Spark
or Dask and works alongside enterprise Hadoop distributions such as Cloudera CDH
or Hortonworks HDP.

**Anaconda Scale provides different options for deploying Anaconda on a cluster, including:**

* Centrally managed installation of Anaconda, including multiple environments (Python and R)
* Anaconda parcel for Cloudera CDH, including custom-generated parcels
* Deploying conda packages and environments with Spark jobs

**Features:**

* Easily install Anaconda across multiple cluster nodes
* Provision distributed compute services with Dask
* Single-user Jupyter Notebook for interactive, distributed computations
* Easily launch and configure a cloud-based cluster on Amazon EC2

**License:**

Anaconda Scale is :doc:`freely available <install>` for unlicensed, unsupported
use with up to 4 cluster nodes. Anaconda Workgroup and Enterprise include
licenses for 8 and 16 nodes, respectively. If you would like to use Anaconda
Scale with additional nodes on a bare-metal, on-premises, or cloud-based
cluster, please contact sales@continuum.io.

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