diff --git a/demo/binary_classification/mushroom.hadoop.conf b/demo/binary_classification/mushroom.hadoop.conf
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+# General Parameters, see comment for each definition
+# choose the booster, can be gbtree or gblinear
+booster = gbtree
+# choose logistic regression loss function for binary classification
+objective = binary:logistic
+
+# Tree Booster Parameters
+# step size shrinkage
+eta = 1.0 
+# minimum loss reduction required to make a further partition
+gamma = 1.0 
+# minimum sum of instance weight(hessian) needed in a child
+min_child_weight = 1 
+# maximum depth of a tree
+max_depth = 3 
+
+# Task Parameters
+# the number of round to do boosting
+num_round = 2
+# 0 means do not save any model except the final round model
+save_period = 0 
+# The path of training data
+data = "agaricus.txt.train" 
+
+# The following parameters are not supported by xgboost running in hadoop yet!
+# The path of validation data, used to monitor training process, here [test] sets name of the validation set
+#eval[test] = "agaricus.txt.test" 
+# evaluate on training data as well each round
+#eval_train = 1
+# The path of test data 
+#test:data = "agaricus.txt.test"      
diff --git a/multi-node/README.md b/multi-node/README.md
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   - Row-based solver split data by row, each node work on subset of rows,
     it uses an approximate histogram count algorithm, and will only examine subset of 
     potential split points as opposed to all split points.
+  - Hadoop version can run on the existing hadoop platform,
+    it use Rabit to submit jobs as map-reduce tasks.
 
 Usage
 ====
diff --git a/multi-node/hadoop/README.md b/multi-node/hadoop/README.md
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+Distributed XGBoost: Hadoop Version
+====
+* Hadoop version: run ```bash run_binary_classification.sh <n_hadoop_workers> <path_in_HDFS>```
+  - This is the hadoop version of binary classification example in the demo folder.
+
+How to Use
+====
+* Check whether environment variable $HADOOP_HOME exists (e.g. run ```echo $HADOOP_HOME```). If not, plz set up hadoop-streaming.jar path in rabit_hadoop.py. 
+
+Notes
+====
+* The code has been tested on MapReduce 1 (MRv1), it should be ok to run on MapReduce 2 (MRv2, YARN).
+* The code is multi-threaded, so you want to run one xgboost per node/worker, which means the parameter <n_workers> should be less than the number of slaves/workers. 
+* The hadoop version now can only save the final model and evaluate test data locally after the training process.
+
diff --git a/multi-node/hadoop/run_binary_classification.sh b/multi-node/hadoop/run_binary_classification.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+if [ "$#" -lt 2 ];
+then
+    echo "Usage: <nworkers> <path_in_HDFS>"
+    exit -1
+fi
+
+curDir=`pwd`
+dataDir=../../demo/binary_classification
+trainFile=$dataDir/agaricus.txt.train
+input=$2
+output=$2/model
+
+# generate the training file if it doesnot exist
+if [ ! -f "$trainFile" ];
+then 
+  echo "Generating training file:"
+  cd $dataDir
+  # map feature using indicator encoding, also produce featmap.txt
+  python mapfeat.py
+  # split train and test
+  python mknfold.py agaricus.txt 1
+  cd $curDir
+fi
+
+hadoop fs -mkdir $input
+hadoop fs -put $trainFile $input
+#hadoop fs -rm -skipTrash -r $output
+
+# training and output the final model file
+python ../../rabit/tracker/rabit_hadoop.py -n $1 -i $input/agaricus.txt.train -o $output -f $dataDir/mushroom.hadoop.conf \
+    --jobname xgboost_hadoop ../../xgboost mushroom.hadoop.conf data=stdin model_out=stdout
+
+# get the final model file
+hadoop fs -get $output/part-00000 ./final.model
+# output prediction task=pred 
+../../xgboost $dataDir/mushroom.hadoop.conf task=pred model_in=final.model
+# print the boosters of 00002.model in dump.raw.txt
+../../xgboost $dataDir/mushroom.hadoop.conf task=dump model_in=final.model name_dump=dump.raw.txt
+# use the feature map in printing for better visualization
+../../xgboost $dataDir/mushroom.hadoop.conf task=dump model_in=final.model fmap=$dataDir/featmap.txt name_dump=dump.nice.txt
+cat dump.nice.txt