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The "StreamingProtocol" page has been changed by thomasjungblut: http://wiki.apache.org/hama/StreamingProtocol?action=diff&rev1=1&rev2=2 - = Hama Streaming Protocol = == Download as PDF/DOC == @@ -10, +9 @@ '''Protocol Version 0''' [[http://people.apache.org/~tjungblut/downloads/streaming_documentation_0.docx|Mutable Version *.docx]] + [[http://people.apache.org/~tjungblut/downloads/streaming_documentation_0.pdf|Immutable Version *.pdf]] - >> will clean this up tomorrow. - Abstract + == Abstract == The Hama Streaming Protocol is a protocol which enables non-Java applications to write BSP functions just like in pure Java code. The communication takes place with plain strings and is therefore highly portable. Also this is the only difference to Hama Pipes, which is a native implementation for C/C++ fully based on low level binary communications and is therefore faster and has less overhead. In the following chapters, we will introduce the text based protocol and its bidirectional communication, also with the practical example of a Python implementation. So we would be proud if other people take their time and implement the streaming protocol in other languages, for example in Scala or Ruby. - Streaming Basics + == Streaming Basics == Hama Streaming is a special BSP implementation, which basically takes care of stream communication with the predefined protocol and by forking a child process with the given configuration. This configuration can be an interpreter, like python or bash, or a compiled binary. + Hama now redirects the input and output streams of that child process to streams that are used for the protocol. Therefore you can’t simply print by writing to STDOUT, but you can use the LOG function that redirects special log statements to the log of the Java task, this will be explained later. The protocol is designed to mimic the Java API, for obvious reasons of documentation and convenience, so we suggest to make yourself comfortable with the Java API first and then get into coding the protocol. For additional information about the design and programming model, have a look at our Getting Started section in our wiki and the user documentation as a PDF. http://wiki.apache.org/hama/GettingStarted#User_documentation_as_PDF + If you want to know how to run a user code within other environments, have a look in the python example at the end. - Text Based Protocol + ==Text Based Protocol== The text based protocol is very easy. You have a finite amount of operations that are associated with a unique identifier (OP_CODE). Common operations in BSP are sending a message or starting the barrier synchronization. In Hama Streaming, every operation is ended with a newline (‘\n’) character, so everything is done with a single line of text. Of course there are operations that are going to use multiple lines to naturally separate information, however these are special cases. + In cases where the transferred information contains newline characters, you will run into problems, if you desperately need a fix for that, we want to add this in the next protocol version, if you can’t wait you need to prepare the transferred data that it does not contain newlines. Special cases, e.g. the initialization of the bsp phase are using a special text wrapper for the operation code “%” + OP_CODE + ”%=”, e.g. “%0%=” for the initial startup code. Note that this text wrapper is required for all communication from the child process to the BSP task, but not all BSP task communications use these special expressions. @@ -69, +71 @@ LOG 25 Not implemented in Pipes, but in streaming it sends child logging to the Java task. - Acknowledgements + ==Acknowledgements== To detect whether the forked child has arrived at the next stage of an algorithm, we work with acknowledgements (short ACK), that have a special formatting. ACKS are formally expressed as "%ACK_" + OP_CODE + "%=", where OP_CODE is the operation to acknowledge. - Initialization Sequence + ==Initialization Sequence== After the child process has been forked from the Java BSP Task, a special initialization sequence is needed. Formally the sequence looks like this: - • START_OP_CODE from Java task + * START_OP_CODE from Java task - • Protocol number from Java task (currently actual version number is 0) + * Protocol number from Java task (currently actual version number is 0) - • SET_BSPJOB_CONF OP_CODE from Java task + * SET_BSPJOB_CONF OP_CODE from Java task - • Number “N” of configuration items (note that this is a sum over number of keys and values) + * Number “N” of configuration items (note that this is a sum over number of keys and values) - • Now “N” lines follow, where the first line contains the configuration key, the following the value. + * Now “N” lines follow, where the first line contains the configuration key, the following the value. - • Now the forked child can send an acknowledgement to the Java task + * Now the forked child can send an acknowledgement to the Java task A sample communication could look like this // are comments and are not parts of the protocol: @@ -104, +106 @@ A normal BSP task has three major steps: - • Setup (used to allocate resources, save configuration values as variables, etc.) + * Setup (used to allocate resources, save configuration values as variables, etc.) - • BSP (the main logic of your algorithm) + * BSP (the main logic of your algorithm) - • Cleanup (free the resources claimed during the whole task) + * Cleanup (free the resources claimed during the whole task) The protocol is the same for every of the three steps: - • X_OP_CODE from Java task // where X can be SETUP (3), BSP (4) or CLEANUP (5) + * X_OP_CODE from Java task // where X can be SETUP (3), BSP (4) or CLEANUP (5) - • Now the forked child can run the bsp task of the user algorithm + * Now the forked child can run the bsp task of the user algorithm - • The forked child can send an acknowledgement to the Java task that the step has finished + * The forked child can send an acknowledgement to the Java task that the step has finished Of course here is the example with the setup function: @@ -122, +124 @@ The three steps are called in sequential order, so after you have ACK’d the end of the setup, the Java code will immediately start telling you about that you need to start the bsp function. This applies also for the transition between bsp and cleanup function. - BSPPeer Functionality + ==BSPPeer Functionality== People familiar with the Hama BSP API know that there is a context object which gives access to the BSP functionality like send or sync. We think this is a cool design and you should take care of implementing it as well, so you can pass this peer in all the user implemented functions. @@ -148, +150 @@ readKeyValue - %6%= Key and Value in two separate following lines. If no input available, both are equal to “%%-1%%”. reopenInput - %17%= - Closing Sequences + ==Closing Sequences== To determine if the child process successfully finished its computations, we have a closing sequence that is expected after you acknowledged your cleanup. The closing sequence is basically just sending TASK_DONE and DONE command to the Java process. @@ -163, +165 @@ Congratulation, you are now able to implement Hama streaming in other languages. - Appendix + =Appendix= - Known implementations + ==Known implementations== - Hama Streaming for Python: https://github.com/thomasjungblut/HamaStreaming + * Hama Streaming for Python: https://github.com/thomasjungblut/HamaStreaming - Running user code in the Python environment + ==Running user code in the Python environment== In the Python runtime, you can pass a .py filename to the BSPRunner as argument, using __import__ you can import the class, get the class via getattr and get an instance by instantiating this class.
