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From: Danushka Menikkumbura <danushka.menikkumbura@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:21:44 +0530
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Subject: Re: Airavata/Hadoop Integration
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Sounds great!

Thanks Amila.


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Amila Jayasekara
<thejaka.amila@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Danushka Menikkumbura
> <danushka.menikkumbura@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Also, I suggest we have a simple plug-in architecture for providers tha=
t
> > would make having custom providers possible.
>
> Hi Dhanushka,
>
> I guess the plugin mechanism for providers is already in-place with
> new GFac architecture. Lahiru will be able to give more information
> about this.
>
> Thanks
> Amila
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Danushka
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Danushka Menikkumbura <
> > danushka.menikkumbura@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Devs,
> >>
> >> I am looking into extending Big Data capabilities of Airavata as my
> M.Sc.
> >> research work. I have identified certain possibilities and am going to
> >> start with integrating Apache Hadoop (and Hadoop-like frameworks) with
> >> Airavata.
> >>
> >> According to what I have understood, the best approach would be to hav=
e
> a
> >> new GFacProvider for Hadoop that takes care of handing Hadoop jobs. We
> can
> >> have a new parameter in the ApplicationContext (say TargetApplication)
> to
> >> define the target application type and resolve correct provider in the
> GFac
> >> Scheduler based on that. I see that having this capability in the
> Scheduler
> >> class is already a TODO. I have been able to do these changes locally
> and
> >> invoke a simple Hadoop job using GFac. Thus, I can assure that this
> >> approach is viable except for any other implication that I am missing.
> >>
> >> I think we can store Hadoop job definitions in the Airavata Registry
> where
> >> each definition would essentially include a unique identifier and othe=
r
> >> attributes like mapper, reducer, sorter, formaters, etc that can be
> defined
> >> using XBaya. Information about these building blocks could be loaded
> from
> >> XML meta data files (of a known format) included in jar files. It shou=
ld
> >> also be possible to compose Hadoop job "chains" using XBaya. So, what =
we
> >> specify in the application context would be the target application typ=
e
> >> (say Hadoop), job/chain id, input file location and the output file
> >> location. In addition I am thinking of having job monitoring support
> based
> >> on constructs provided by the Hadoop API (that I have already looked
> into)
> >> and data querying based on Apache Hive/Pig.
> >>
> >> Furthermore, apart from Hadoop there are two other similar frameworks
> that
> >> look quite promising.
> >>
> >> 1. Sector/Sphere
> >>
> >> Sector/Sphere [1] is an open source software framework for
> >> high-performance distributed data storage and processing. It is
> comparable
> >> with Apache HDFS/Hadoop. Sector is a distributed file system and Spher=
e
> is
> >> the programming framework that supports massive in-storage parallel da=
ta
> >> processing on data stored in Sector. The key motive is that
> Sector/Sphere
> >> is claimed to be about 2 - 4 times faster than Hadoop.
> >>
> >> 2. Hyracks
> >>
> >> Hyracks [2] is another framework for data-intensive computing that is
> >> roughly in the same space as Apache Hadoop. It has support for composi=
ng
> >> and executing native Hyracks jobs plus running Hadoop jobs in the
> Hyracks
> >> runtime. Furthermore, it powers the popular parallel DBMS, ASTERIX [3]=
.
> >>
> >> I am yet to look into the API's of these two frameworks but they shoul=
d
> >> ideally work with the same GFac implementation that I have proposed fo=
r
> >> Hadoop.
> >>
> >> I would strongly appreciate your feedback on this approach. Also pros
> and
> >> cons of using Sector/Sphere or Hyracks if you have any experience with
> them
> >> already.
> >>
> >> [1] Y. Gu and R. L. Grossman, =93Lessons learned from a year=92s worth=
 of
> >> benchmarks of large data clouds,=94 in Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop=
 on
> >> Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers, 2009, p. 3.
> >>
> >> [2] V. Borkar, M. Carey, R. Grover, N. Onose, and R. Vernica, =93Hyrac=
ks:
> A
> >> flexible and extensible foundation for data-intensive computing,=94 in
> Data
> >> Engineering (ICDE), 2011 IEEE 27th International Conference on, 2011,
> pp.
> >> 1151=961162.
> >>
> >> [3] http://asterix.ics.uci.edu/
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Danushka
> >>
>

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