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Shevek commented on HADOOP-2491: -------------------------------- I appreciate that I am a new contributor to Hadoop, but I am very interested in running MR tasks on Hadoop which are not as strictly governed by the current MR workflow as is the current implementation. I am currently reading the source code to Hadoop, I'm slightly stuck in the gap between what appears to be a version 2.0 implementation emerging from the works, but even so, I am very interested in contributing towards the effort suggested by this ticket. I have spent the last couple of years writing high-level compilers for MR-like languages, and hope this expertise can be of use. > generalize the TT / JT servers to handle more generic tasks > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-2491 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2491 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: mapred > Reporter: eric baldeschwieler > > We've been discussing a proposal to generalize the TT / JT servers to handle > more generic tasks and move job specific work out of the job tracker and into > client code so the whole system is both much more general and has more > coherent layering. The result would look more like condor/pbs like systems > (or presumably borg) with map-reduce as a user job. > Such a system would allow the current map-reduce code to coexist with other > work-queuing libraries or maybe even persistent services on the same Hadoop > cluster, although that would be a stretch goal. We'll kick off a thread with > some documents soon. > Our primary goal in going this way would be to get better utilization out of > map-reduce clusters and support a richer scheduling model. The ability to > support alternative job frameworks would just be gravy! > ---- > Putting this in as a place holder. Hope to get folks talking about this to > post some more detail. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.