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From: "Edward J. Yoon" <edward.yoon@samsung.com>
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Subject: RE: Proposal for an Apache Hama sub-project
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 09:13:01 +0900
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Thanks for your proposal.

I of course think Apache Hama can be used for scheduling sync and async
communication/computation networks with various topologies and resource
allocation. However, I'm not sure whether this approach is also fit for
modern microservice architecture? In my opinion, this can be discussed and
cooked in Hama community as a sub-project until it's mature enough (CC'ing
general@i.a.o. I'll be happy to read more feedbacks from ASF incubator
community).

P.S., It seems you referred to incubation proposal template. There's no need
to add me as initial committer (I don't have much time to actively
contribute to your project). And, I recently quit Samsung Electronics and
joined to $200 billion sized O2O e-commerce company as a CTO.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sachin Ghai [mailto:sachin.ghai@impetus.co.in]
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 5:16 PM
To: dev@hama.apache.org
Subject: Proposal for an Apache Hama sub-project

Hama Community,

I would like to propose a sub-project for Apache Hama and initiate
discussion around the proposal. The proposed sub-project named 'Scalar' is a
scalable orchestration, training and serving system for machine learning and
deep learning. Scalar would leverage Apache Hama to automate the distributed
training, model deployment and prediction serving.

More details about the proposal are listed below as per Apache project
proposal template:
Abstract
Scalar is a general purpose framework for simplifying massive scale big data
analytics and deep learning modelling, deployment, serving with high
performance.
Proposal
It is a goal of Scalar to provide an abstraction framework which allows user
to easily scale the functions of training a model, deploying a model and
serving the prediction from underlying machine learning or deep learning
framework. It is also the characteristic of its execution framework to
orchestrate heterogeneous workload graphs utilizing Apache Hama, Apache
Hadoop, Apache Spark and TensorFlow resources.
Background
The initial Scalar code was developed in 2016 and has been successfully beta
tested for one of the largest insurance organizations in a client specific
PoC. The motivation behind this work is to build a framework that provides
abstraction on heterogeneous data science frameworks and helps users
leverage them in the most performant way.
Rationale
There is a sudden deluge of machine learning and deep learning frameworks in
the industry. As an application developer, it becomes a hard choice to
switch from one framework to another without rewriting the application.
Also, there is additional plumbing to be done to retrieve the prediction
results for each model in different frameworks. We aim to provide an
abstraction framework which can be used to seamlessly train and deploy the
model at scale on multiple frameworks like TensorFlow, Apache Horn or Caffe.
The abstraction further provides a unified layer for serving the prediction
in the most performant, scalable and efficient way for a multi-tenant
deployment. The key performance metrics will be reduction in training time,
lower error rate and lower latency time for serving models.
Scalar consists of a core engine which can be used to create flows described
in terms of state, sequences and algorithms. The engine invokes execution
context of Apache Hama to train and deploy models on target framework.
Apache Hama is used for a variety of functions including parameter tuning
and scheduling computations on a distributed cluster. A data object layer
provides access to data from heterogeneous sources like HDFS, local, S3 etc.
A REST API layer is utilized for serving the prediction functions to client
applications. A caching layer in the middle acts as a latency improver for
various functions.
Initial Goals
Some current goals include:

  *   Build community.
  *   Provide general purpose API for machine learning and deep learning
training, deployment and serving.
  *   Serve the predictions with low latency.
  *   Run massive workloads via Apache Hama on TensorFlow, Apache Spark and
Caffe.
  *   Provide CPU and GPU support on-premise or on cloud to run the
algorithms.
Current Status
Meritocracy
The core developers understand what it means to have a process based on
meritocracy. We will provide continuous efforts to build an environment that
supports this, encouraging community members to contribute.
Community
A small community has formed within the Apache Hama project community and
companies such as enterprise services and product company and artificial
intelligence startup. There is a lot of interest in data science serving
systems and Artificial intelligence simplification systems. By bringing
Scalar into Apache, we believe that the community will grow even bigger.
Core Developers
Edward J. Yoon, Sachin Ghai, Ishwardeep Singh, Rachna Gogia, Abhishek Soni,
Nikunj Limbaseeya, Mayur Choubey
Known Risks
Orphaned Products
Apache Hama is already a core open source component being utilized at
Samsung Electronics, and Scalar is already getting adopted by major
enterprise organizations. There is no direct risk for Scalar project to be
orphaned.
Inexperience with Open Source
All contributors have experience using and/or working on Apache open source
projects.
Homogeneous Developers
The initial committers are from different organizations such as Impetus,
Chalk Digital, and Samsung Electronics.
Reliance on Salaried Developers
Few will be working as full-time open source developer. Other developers
will also start working on the project in their spare time.
Relationships with Other Apache Products

  *   Scalar is being built on top of Apache Hama
  *   Apache Spark is being used for machine learning.
  *   Apache Horn is being used for deep learning.
  *   The framework will run natively on Apache Hadoop and Apache Mesos.
An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand
Scalar itself will hopefully have benefits from Apache, in terms of
attracting a community and establishing a solid group of developers, but
also the relation with Apache Hadoop, Spark and Hama. These are the main
reasons for us to send this proposal.
Documentation
Initial design of Scalar can be found at this
link<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7mbLUemi6LFVHlFSzhONmZ4aU0/view?usp=s
haring>.
Initial Source
Impetus Technologies (Impetus) will contribute the initial orchestration
code base to create this project. Impetus plans to contribute the Scalar
code base, test cases, build files, and documentation to the ASF under the
terms specified in the ASF Corporate Contributor License and further develop
it with wider community. Once at Apache, the project will be licensed under
the ASF license.
Cryptography
Not applicable.
Required Resources
Mailing Lists

  *   scalar-dev
  *   scalar-pmc
Subversion Directory

  *   Git is the preferred source control system:
git://git.apache.org/scalar
Issue Tracking

  *   a JIRA issue tracker, SCALAR
Initial Committers

  *   Sachin Ghai (sachin.ghai AT impetus DOT co DOT in)
  *   Edward J. Yoon (edwardyoon AT apache DOT org)
  *   Abhishek Soni (abhishek.soni AT impetus DOT co DOT in)
  *   Ishwardeep Singh ( ishwardeep AT chalkdigital DOT com )
  *   Nikunj Limbaseeya (nikunj.limbaseeya AT impetus DOT co DOT in)
  *   Rachna Gogia (rachna AT hadoopsphere DOT org)
  *   Mayur Choubey (mayur.choubey AT impetus DOT co DOT in)
Affiliations

  *   Sachin Ghai (Impetus)
  *   Edward J. Yoon (Samsung Electronics)
  *   Abhishek Soni (Impetus)
  *   Ishwardeep Singh ( Chalk Digital)
  *   Nikunj Limbaseeya (Impetus)
  *   Rachna Gogia (HadoopSphere)
  *   Mayur Choubey (Impetus)
Sponsors
<proposed>
Champion

  *   Edward J. Yoon <ASF member, Samsung Electronics >
Nominated Mentors

  *   Edward J. Yoon <ASF member, Samsung Electronics >
Sponsoring Entity
The Apache Hama project

-- End of proposal --

Thanks,
Sachin Ghai

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