diff --git a/asterix-yarn/src/main/resources/configs/asterix-client-log4j.properties b/asterix-yarn/src/main/resources/configs/asterix-client-log4j.properties
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+#/*
+# Copyright 2009-2013 by The Regents of the University of California
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# you may obtain a copy of the License from
+# 
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#*/
+log4j.rootLogger=info, A1
+
+log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+# Print the date in ISO 8601 format
+log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%-p: %m%n
+
+log4j.logger.edu.uci.ics.asterix.event.management=info
+log4j.logger.org.apache.zookeeper=info
diff --git a/asterix-yarn/src/main/resources/configs/base-asterix-configuration.xml b/asterix-yarn/src/main/resources/configs/base-asterix-configuration.xml
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+<!--
+ ! Copyright 2009-2013 by The Regents of the University of California
+ ! Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ ! you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ ! you may obtain a copy of the License from
+ ! 
+ !     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ ! 
+ ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ ! distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ ! WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ ! See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ ! limitations under the License.
+ !-->
+<asterixConfiguration xmlns="asterixconf">
+
+	<property>
+		<name>nc.java.opts</name>
+		<value>-Xmx1536m</value>
+		<description>JVM parameters for each Node Contoller (NC)</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>cc.java.opts</name>
+		<value>-Xmx1024m</value>
+		<description>JVM parameters for each Cluster Contoller (CC)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+        <property>
+                <name>max.wait.active.cluster</name>
+                <value>60</value>
+                <description>Maximum wait (in seconds) for a cluster to be ACTIVE (all nodes are available)
+                        before a submitted query/statement can be executed. (Default = 60 seconds)
+                </description>
+        </property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>storage.buffercache.pagesize</name>
+		<value>131072</value>
+		<description>The page size in bytes for pages in the buffer cache.
+			(Default = "131072" // 128KB)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>storage.buffercache.size</name>
+		<value>536870912</value>
+		<description>The size of memory allocated to the disk buffer cache.
+			The value should be a multiple of the buffer cache page size(Default
+			= "536870912" // 512MB)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>storage.buffercache.maxopenfiles</name>
+		<value>214748364</value>
+		<description>The maximum number of open files in the buffer cache.
+			(Default = "214748364")
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>storage.memorycomponent.pagesize</name>
+		<value>131072</value>
+		<description>The page size in bytes for pages allocated to memory
+			components. (Default = "131072" // 128KB)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>storage.memorycomponent.numpages</name>
+		<value>256</value>
+		<description>The number of pages to allocate for a memory component.
+			(Default = 256)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+	
+	<property>
+		<name>storage.metadata.memorycomponent.numpages</name>
+		<value>64</value>
+		<description>The number of pages to allocate for a memory component.
+			(Default = 64)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+    <property>
+		<name>storage.memorycomponent.numcomponents</name>
+		<value>2</value>
+		<description>The number of memory components to be used per lsm index.
+			(Default = 2)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+	
+	<property>
+		<name>storage.memorycomponent.globalbudget</name>
+		<value>536870912</value>
+		<description>The total size of memory in bytes that the sum of all
+			open memory
+			components cannot exceed. (Default = "536870192" // 512MB)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>storage.lsm.bloomfilter.falsepositiverate</name>
+		<value>0.01</value>
+		<description>The maximum acceptable false positive rate for bloom
+			filters associated with LSM indexes. (Default = "0.01" // 1%)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+	
+	<property>
+		<name>txn.log.buffer.numpages</name>
+		<value>8</value>
+		<description>The number of in-memory log buffer pages. (Default = "8")
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>txn.log.buffer.pagesize</name>
+		<value>524288</value>
+		<description>The size of pages in the in-memory log buffer. (Default =
+			"524288" // 512KB)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>txn.log.partitionsize</name>
+		<value>2147483648</value>
+		<description>The maximum size of a log file partition allowed before
+			rotating the log to the next partition. (Default = "2147483648" //
+			2GB)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>txn.log.checkpoint.lsnthreshold</name>
+		<value>67108864</value>
+		<description>The size of the window that the maximum LSN is allowed to
+			be ahead of the checkpoint LSN by. (Default = ""67108864" // 64M)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>txn.log.checkpoint.pollfrequency</name>
+		<value>120</value>
+		<description>The time in seconds between that the checkpoint thread
+			waits between polls. (Default = "120" // 120s)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>txn.log.checkpoint.history</name>
+		<value>0</value>
+		<description>The number of old log partition files to keep before
+			discarding. (Default = "0")
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>txn.lock.escalationthreshold</name>
+		<value>1000</value>
+		<description>The number of entity level locks that need to be acquired
+			before the locks are coalesced and escalated into a dataset level
+			lock. (Default = "1000")
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>txn.lock.shrinktimer</name>
+		<value>5000</value>
+		<description>The time in milliseconds to wait before deallocating
+			unused lock manager memory. (Default = "5000" // 5s)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>txn.lock.timeout.waitthreshold</name>
+		<value>60000</value>
+		<description>The time in milliseconds to wait before labeling a
+			transaction which has been waiting for a lock timed-out. (Default =
+			"60000" // 60s)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>txn.lock.timeout.sweepthreshold</name>
+		<value>10000</value>
+		<description>The time in milliseconds the timeout thread waits between
+			sweeps to detect timed-out transactions. (Default = "10000" // 10s)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>compiler.sortmemory</name>
+		<value>33554432</value>
+		<description>The amount of memory in bytes given to sort operations.
+			(Default = "33554432" // 32mb)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>compiler.joinmemory</name>
+		<value>33554432</value>
+		<description>The amount of memory in bytes given to join operations.
+			(Default = "33554432" // 32mb)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>compiler.framesize</name>
+		<value>131072</value>
+		<description>The Hyracks frame size that the compiler configures per
+			job. (Default = "131072" // 128KB)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>web.port</name>
+		<value>19001</value>
+		<description>The port for the ASTERIX web interface. (Default = 19001)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>api.port</name>
+		<value>19002</value>
+		<description>The port for the ASTERIX API server. (Default = 19002)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>log.level</name>
+		<value>INFO</value>
+		<description>The minimum log level to be displayed. (Default = INFO)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>plot.activate</name>
+		<value>false</value>
+		<description>Enabling plot of Algebricks plan to tmp folder. (Default = false)
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+</asterixConfiguration>
diff --git a/asterix-yarn/src/main/resources/configs/local.xml b/asterix-yarn/src/main/resources/configs/local.xml
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+    <cluster xmlns="yarn_cluster">
+
+      <!-- Name of the cluster -->
+      <name>local</name>
+
+      <log_dir>/tmp/</log_dir>
+      <txn_log_dir>/tmp/</txn_log_dir>
+
+      <!-- Mount point of an iodevice. Use a comma separated list for a machine that
+                      has multiple iodevices (disks).
+                                 This property can be overriden for a node by redefining at the node level. -->
+      <iodevices>/tmp</iodevices>
+
+      <!-- Path on each iodevice where Asterix will store its data -->
+      <store>storage</store>
+
+       <!-- IP addresses of the master machine A -->
+      <master_node>
+          <id>cc</id>
+	      <client_ip>localhost</client_ip>
+	      <cluster_ip>localhost</cluster_ip>
+	      <client_port>1098</client_port>
+	      <cluster_port>1099</cluster_port>
+	      <http_port>8888</http_port>
+      </master_node>
+      <node>
+      	      <id>nc1</id>
+      	      <cluster_ip>127.0.0.1</cluster_ip>
+      </node>
+    <metadata_node>nc1</metadata_node>
+</cluster>
diff --git a/asterix-yarn/src/main/resources/configs/my_awesome_cluster_desc.xml b/asterix-yarn/src/main/resources/configs/my_awesome_cluster_desc.xml
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+    <cluster xmlns="yarn_cluster">
+        <name>my_awesome_instance</name>
+        <txn_log_dir>/home/yarn/</txn_log_dir>
+        <iodevices>/home/yarn/</iodevices>
+        <store>asterix-data</store>
+        <master_node>
+            <id>cc</id>
+            <client_ip>10.10.0.2</client_ip>
+            <cluster_ip>10.10.0.2</cluster_ip>
+            <client_port>1098</client_port>
+            <cluster_port>1099</cluster_port>
+            <http_port>8888</http_port>
+        </master_node>
+        <node>
+            <id>nc1</id>
+            <cluster_ip>10.10.0.3</cluster_ip>
+        </node>
+        <node>
+            <id>nc2</id>
+            <cluster_ip>10.10.0.4</cluster_ip>
+        </node>
+        <metadata_node>nc1</metadata_node>
+    </cluster>