diff --git a/peel-core/src/main/scala/eu/stratosphere/peel/core/config/Model.scala b/peel-core/src/main/scala/eu/stratosphere/peel/core/config/Model.scala
index bbcbf39f..ccaf5c0c 100644
--- a/peel-core/src/main/scala/eu/stratosphere/peel/core/config/Model.scala
+++ b/peel-core/src/main/scala/eu/stratosphere/peel/core/config/Model.scala
@@ -92,6 +92,10 @@ object Model {
     val hosts = c.getStringList(key)
   }
 
+  class HostsWithPort(val c: Config, val prefix: String) extends Model {
+    val hosts = (for (host <- c.getStringList(s"$prefix.slaves").asScala) yield s"$host:${c.getInt(s"$prefix.cli.dataport")}").asJava
+  }
+
   def factory[T <: Model](config: Config, prefix: String)(implicit m: Manifest[T]) = {
     val constructor = m.runtimeClass.getConstructor(classOf[Config], classOf[String])
     constructor.newInstance(config, prefix)
diff --git a/peel-extensions/src/main/resources/peel-extensions.xml b/peel-extensions/src/main/resources/peel-extensions.xml
index bd1b09ef..c9b6f4eb 100644
--- a/peel-extensions/src/main/resources/peel-extensions.xml
+++ b/peel-extensions/src/main/resources/peel-extensions.xml
@@ -66,4 +66,10 @@
         <constructor-arg name="lifespan" value="EXPERIMENT"/>
     </bean>
 
+    <!-- H2O -->
+    <bean id="h2o-3.0.0.12" class="eu.stratosphere.peel.extensions.h2o.beans.system.H2O" parent="system">
+        <constructor-arg name="version" value="3.0.0.12"/>
+        <constructor-arg name="lifespan" value="EXPERIMENT"/>
+    </bean>
+
 </beans>
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diff --git a/peel-extensions/src/main/resources/reference.h2o-3.0.0.12.conf b/peel-extensions/src/main/resources/reference.h2o-3.0.0.12.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e073785f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/peel-extensions/src/main/resources/reference.h2o-3.0.0.12.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# include common h2o configuration
+include "reference.h2o.conf"
+
+system {
+    h2o {
+        path {
+          #IMPORTANT: it has to be a pre-built version with HADOOP
+          #TODO: zip file is not supported
+          archive.url = "http://h2o-release.s3.amazonaws.com/h2o/rel-shannon/12/h2o-3.0.0.12-hdp2.2.zip"
+          archive.md5 = "297811A13E849D264F6223536D736B19"
+          archive.src = ${app.path.downloads}"/h2o-3.0.0.12-hdp2.2.zip"
+          home = ${system.h2o.path.archive.dst}"/h2o-3.0.0.12-hdp2.2"
+        }
+
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/peel-extensions/src/main/resources/reference.h2o.conf b/peel-extensions/src/main/resources/reference.h2o.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c4bdef36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/peel-extensions/src/main/resources/reference.h2o.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+system {
+  h2o {
+    user = ${system.default.user}
+    group = ${system.default.group}
+    path {
+      archive.dst = ${app.path.systems}
+    }
+    startup {
+      max.attempts = ${system.default.startup.max.attempts}
+      polling {
+        counter = ${system.default.startup.polling.counter}
+        interval = ${system.default.startup.polling.interval}
+      }
+    }
+    config {
+      # put list of slaves
+      slaves = ${system.default.config.slaves}
+      cli {
+        tmp.dir = "/tmp/h2o-"${system.default.user}
+        dataport = 55555
+        memory.per-node = 2g
+        parallelism.per-node = ${system.default.config.parallelism.per-node}
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/peel-extensions/src/main/resources/templates/h2o/conf/h2o-conf.mustache b/peel-extensions/src/main/resources/templates/h2o/conf/h2o-conf.mustache
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0069487b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/peel-extensions/src/main/resources/templates/h2o/conf/h2o-conf.mustache
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{{#tmp.dir}}tmp.dir {{tmp.dir}}{{/tmp.dir}}
+{{#dataport}}dataport {{dataport}}{{/dataport}}
+{{#parallelism.per-node}}parallelism.per-node {{parallelism.per-node}}{{/parallelism.per-node}}
+{{#memory.per-node}}memory.per-node {{memory.per-node}}{{/memory.per-node}}
+{{#single-precision}}single-precision {{single-precision}}{{/single-precision}}
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diff --git a/peel-extensions/src/main/resources/templates/h2o/conf/hosts.mustache b/peel-extensions/src/main/resources/templates/h2o/conf/hosts.mustache
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f70d5453
--- /dev/null
+++ b/peel-extensions/src/main/resources/templates/h2o/conf/hosts.mustache
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{{#hosts}}
+{{{.}}}
+{{/hosts}}
diff --git a/peel-extensions/src/main/scala/eu/stratosphere/peel/extensions/h2o/beans/experiment/H2OExperiment.scala b/peel-extensions/src/main/scala/eu/stratosphere/peel/extensions/h2o/beans/experiment/H2OExperiment.scala
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1dbabf57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/peel-extensions/src/main/scala/eu/stratosphere/peel/extensions/h2o/beans/experiment/H2OExperiment.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+package eu.stratosphere.peel.extensions.h2o.beans.experiment
+
+import java.lang.{System => Sys}
+import java.io.FileWriter
+import java.nio.file.{Paths, Files}
+
+import com.typesafe.config.Config
+import eu.stratosphere.peel.core.beans.data.{ExperimentOutput, DataSet}
+import eu.stratosphere.peel.core.beans.experiment.Experiment
+import eu.stratosphere.peel.core.util.shell
+import eu.stratosphere.peel.extensions.h2o.beans.system.H2O
+import spray.json._
+
+/** An [[eu.stratosphere.peel.core.beans.experiment.Experiment Experiment]] implementation which handles the execution
+  * of a single H2O job.
+  *
+  * Note:
+  * H2O currently doesn't support submitting a java/scala job in jar file.
+  * There are 2 ways to submit a h2o job:
+  * 1. through interactive web interface, only the pre-implemented algorithms are supported.
+  * 2. execute a python/R script. precondition: install the h2o python/R package
+  *
+  * So if you don't want to install the h2o python/R package, you have to write a java program which simulate all
+  * the actions on the web interface.
+  */
+class H2OExperiment(
+    command: String,
+    runner : H2O,
+    runs   : Int,
+    inputs : Set[DataSet],
+    outputs: Set[ExperimentOutput],
+    name   : String,
+    config : Config) extends Experiment(command, runner, runs, inputs, outputs, name, config) {
+
+  def this(
+    runs   : Int,
+    runner : H2O,
+    input  : DataSet,
+    output : ExperimentOutput,
+    command: String,
+    name   : String,
+    config : Config) = this(command, runner, runs, Set(input), Set(output), name, config)
+
+  def this(
+    runs   : Int,
+    runner : H2O,
+    inputs : Set[DataSet],
+    output : ExperimentOutput,
+    command: String,
+    name   : String,
+    config : Config) = this(command, runner, runs, inputs, Set(output), name, config)
+
+  override def run(id: Int, force: Boolean): Experiment.Run[H2O] = new H2OExperiment.SingleJobRun(id, this, force)
+
+  def copy(name: String = name, config: Config = config) = new H2OExperiment(command, runner, runs, inputs, outputs, name, config)
+
+}
+
+object H2OExperiment {
+
+  case class State(
+    name: String,
+    suiteName: String,
+    command: String,
+    runnerID: String,
+    runnerName: String,
+    runnerVersion: String,
+    var runExitCode: Option[Int] = None,
+    var runTime: Long = 0) extends Experiment.RunState {}
+
+  object StateProtocol extends DefaultJsonProtocol with NullOptions {
+    implicit val stateFormat = jsonFormat8(State)
+  }
+
+  /** A private inner class encapsulating the logic of single run. */
+  class SingleJobRun(val id: Int, val exp: H2OExperiment, val force: Boolean) extends Experiment.SingleJobRun[H2O, State] {
+
+    import eu.stratosphere.peel.extensions.h2o.beans.experiment.H2OExperiment.StateProtocol._
+
+    val runnerLogPath = s"${exp.config.getString("system.h2o.config.cli.tmp.dir")}/h2ologs"
+
+    override def isSuccessful = state.runExitCode.getOrElse(-1) == 0
+
+    override protected def logFilePatterns = List(s"$runnerLogPath/h2o_*-3-info.log")
+
+    val pollingNode = exp.config.getStringList("system.h2o.config.slaves").get(0)
+    val user = exp.config.getString("system.h2o.user")
+    val dataPort = exp.config.getInt("system.h2o.config.cli.dataport")
+
+    override protected def loadState(): State = {
+      if (Files.isRegularFile(Paths.get(s"$home/state.json"))) {
+        try {
+          io.Source.fromFile(s"$home/state.json").mkString.parseJson.convertTo[State]
+        } catch {
+          case e: Throwable => State(name, Sys.getProperty("app.suite.name"), command, exp.runner.beanName, exp.runner.name, exp.runner.version)
+        }
+      } else {
+        State(name, Sys.getProperty("app.suite.name"), command, exp.runner.beanName, exp.runner.name, exp.runner.version)
+      }
+    }
+
+    override protected def writeState() = {
+      val fw = new FileWriter(s"$home/state.json")
+      fw.write(state.toJson.prettyPrint)
+      fw.close()
+    }
+
+    override protected def runJob() = {
+      // try to execute the experiment
+      val (runExit, t) = Experiment.time(this ! (command, s"$home/run.out", s"$home/run.err"))
+      state.runTime = t
+      state.runExitCode = Some(runExit)
+    }
+
+    /** Before the run, collect runner log files and their current line counts */
+    override protected def beforeRun() = {
+      val logFiles = for (pattern <- logFilePatterns; f <- (shell !! s""" ssh $user@$pollingNode "ls $pattern" """).split(Sys.lineSeparator).map(_.trim)) yield f
+      logFileCounts = Map((for (f <- logFiles) yield f -> (shell !! s""" ssh $user@$pollingNode "wc -l $f | cut -d' ' -f1" """).trim.toLong): _*)
+    }
+
+    /** After the run, copy logs */
+    override protected def afterRun(): Unit = {
+      shell ! s"rm -Rf $home/logs/*"
+      for ((file, count) <- logFileCounts) shell ! s""" ssh $user@$pollingNode "tail -n +${count + 1} $file" > $home/logs/${Paths.get(file).getFileName}"""
+    }
+
+    override def cancelJob() = {
+      //firstly, retrieve the jobid of running job
+      val s = shell !! s"wget -qO- $user@$pollingNode:$dataPort/3/Jobs"
+      var jobid = ""
+      for (job <- s.parseJson.asJsObject.fields.get("jobs").get.asInstanceOf[JsArray].elements) {
+        val fields = job.asJsObject.fields
+        if (fields.getOrElse("status", "").toString == "\"RUNNING\"" || fields.getOrElse("status", "").toString == "\"CREATED\"") {
+          val sid = fields.get("key").get.asInstanceOf[JsObject].fields.get("name").get.toString()
+          jobid = sid.substring(1, jobid.length - 1)
+        }
+      }
+
+      //send cancel request to REST API
+      shell !! s""" wget -qO- $user@$pollingNode:$dataPort/3/Jobs/${jobid.replace("$", "\\$")}/cancel --post-data="job_id=${jobid}" """
+
+      //check if the job has been successfully cancelled
+      var isCancelled = false
+      while (!isCancelled) {
+        Thread.sleep(exp.config.getInt("system.h2o.startup.polling.interval") * 2)
+        val status = this getStatus(jobid)
+        isCancelled = status == "CANCELLED"
+      }
+      state.runTime = exp.config.getLong("experiment.timeout") * 1000
+      state.runExitCode = Some(-1)
+    }
+
+    private def !(command: String, outFile: String, errFile: String) = {
+      shell ! s"$command > $outFile 2> $errFile"
+    }
+
+    private def getStatus(jobid: String): String = {
+      (shell !! s""" wget -qO- $user@$pollingNode:$dataPort/3/Jobs/${jobid.replace("$", "\\$")} | grep -Eo '"status":"[A-Z]+"' | grep -Eo [A-Z]+ """).stripLineEnd
+    }
+
+  }
+
+}
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diff --git a/peel-extensions/src/main/scala/eu/stratosphere/peel/extensions/h2o/beans/system/H2O.scala b/peel-extensions/src/main/scala/eu/stratosphere/peel/extensions/h2o/beans/system/H2O.scala
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fad30159
--- /dev/null
+++ b/peel-extensions/src/main/scala/eu/stratosphere/peel/extensions/h2o/beans/system/H2O.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+package eu.stratosphere.peel.extensions.h2o.beans.system
+
+import com.samskivert.mustache.Mustache
+import com.typesafe.config.ConfigException
+import eu.stratosphere.peel.core.beans.system.Lifespan._
+import eu.stratosphere.peel.core.beans.system.{SetUpTimeoutException, System}
+import eu.stratosphere.peel.core.config.{Model, SystemConfig}
+import eu.stratosphere.peel.core.util.shell
+
+import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
+
+/** Wrapper for H2O
+  *
+  * Implements H2O as a [[eu.stratosphere.peel.core.beans.system.System System]] class and provides setup and teardown methods.
+  *
+  * @param version Version of the system (e.g. "2.8.6")
+  * @param lifespan [[eu.stratosphere.peel.core.beans.system.Lifespan Lifespan]] of the system
+  * @param dependencies Set of dependencies that this system needs
+  * @param mc The moustache compiler to compile the templates that are used to generate property files for the system
+  *
+  *
+  */
+class H2O(version: String, lifespan: Lifespan, dependencies: Set[System] = Set(), mc: Mustache.Compiler) extends System("h2o", version, lifespan, dependencies, mc) {
+
+  override def configuration() = SystemConfig(config, {
+    val home = config.getString("system.h2o.path.home")
+    List(
+      SystemConfig.Entry[Model.HostsWithPort]("system.h2o.config", s"$home/flatfile", templatePath("conf/hosts"), mc),
+      SystemConfig.Entry[Model.Yaml]("system.h2o.config.cli", s"$home/conf", templatePath("conf/h2o-conf"), mc)
+    )
+  })
+
+  override protected def start(): Unit = {
+    val user = config.getString("system.h2o.user")
+    val tmpDir =config.getString("system.h2o.config.cli.tmp.dir")
+    val dataPort = config.getInt("system.h2o.config.cli.dataport")
+    val memory = config.getString("system.h2o.config.cli.memory.per-node")
+    val nthreads = config.getInt("system.h2o.config.cli.parallelism.per-node")
+    val home = config.getString("system.h2o.path.home")
+
+    // check if tmp dir exists and create if not
+    try {
+
+      for (dataNode <- config.getStringList("system.h2o.config.slaves").asScala) {
+        logger.info(s"Initializing tmp directory $tmpDir at taskmanager node $dataNode")
+        shell ! s""" ssh $user@$dataNode "rm -Rf $tmpDir" """
+        shell ! s""" ssh $user@$dataNode "mkdir -p $tmpDir" """
+      }
+    } catch {
+      case _: ConfigException => // ignore not set explicitly, java default is taken
+    }
+
+    var failedStartUpAttempts = 0
+
+    while (!isUp) {
+      try {
+        val totl = config.getStringList("system.h2o.config.slaves").size()
+        val init = 0 // H2O doesn't reset the log on startup
+
+        for (dataNode <- config.getStringList("system.h2o.config.slaves").asScala) {
+            shell ! s""" ssh $user@$dataNode "java -Xmx$memory -cp $home/h2odriver.jar water.H2OApp -flatfile $home/flatfile -nthreads $nthreads -ice_root $tmpDir -port $dataPort > /dev/null &" """
+        }
+        logger.info("Waiting for nodes to connect")
+
+        var curr = init
+        var cntr = config.getInt("system.h2o.startup.polling.counter")
+        val pollingNode = config.getStringList("system.h2o.config.slaves").get(0)
+        while (curr - init < totl) {
+          logger.info(s"Connected ${curr - init} from $totl nodes")
+          // wait a bit
+          Thread.sleep(config.getInt("system.h2o.startup.polling.interval"))
+          // get new values
+          try {
+            curr = Integer.parseInt((shell !! s""" wget -qO- $user@$pollingNode:$dataPort/3/Cloud.json | grep -Eo 'cloud_size":[0-9]+,' | grep -Eo '[0-9]+' """).stripLineEnd)
+          } catch {
+            case _ : Throwable => ;
+          }
+          // timeout if counter goes below zero
+          cntr = cntr - 1
+          if (cntr < 0) throw new SetUpTimeoutException(s"Cannot start system '$toString'; node connection timeout at system ")
+        }
+        isUp = true
+      } catch {
+        case e: SetUpTimeoutException =>
+          failedStartUpAttempts = failedStartUpAttempts + 1
+          if (failedStartUpAttempts < config.getInt("system.h2o.startup.max.attempts")) {
+            stop()
+            logger.info(s"Could not bring system '$toString' up in time, trying again...")
+          } else {
+            throw e
+          }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  override protected def stop() = {
+    val user = config.getString("system.h2o.user")
+    for (dataNode <- config.getStringList("system.h2o.config.slaves").asScala) {
+      shell ! s""" ssh $user@$dataNode "ps -ef | grep h2odriver.jar | grep -v grep | awk '{print \\$$2}' | xargs kill" """
+    }
+    isUp = false
+  }
+
+  def isRunning = {
+    val pollingNode = config.getStringList("system.h2o.config.slaves").get(0)
+    val user = config.getString("system.h2o.user")
+    (shell ! s""" ssh $user@$pollingNode "ps -ef | grep h2odriver.jar | grep -v grep " """) == 0
+  }
+}
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