Hi All, I was trying to get up to speed with the current status of the Hadoop+Airavata, but was not able to find anything in the wiki. It's my bad that I have not been following the mailing lists closely, but I thought it would be great if we can have some Hadoop+Airavata architecture/usage docs on the wiki. They would help with attracting users as well with attracting devs who would like to contribute ( and to lazy fellows like my self, who are trying to get up to speed the easy way :)).
May be Milinda can start by adding docs on the GSOC work we did last summer and then we can start adding the new content on top it. thanks, Thilina On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Chathura Herath <[email protected]>wrote: > Sounds good, and pick the name you like for the config file since its your > idea. > > Its great if we could have an abstraction that captures all the host > descriptions as Amila pointed out. But i not sure how much work that > is going to be. > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Danushka Menikkumbura > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Chathura, > > > > It is good to see that the snowball is gathering mass and I am totally +1 > > for the point that you are trying to make. > > > > Lemme extend it little further. > > > > As far as I know, GFac was conceived with the intention of facilitating > > provisions for associating legacy (hosted) applications with workflows. > > Naturally these applications would have a host of some form, hence a host > > description and a deployed application, hence an application deployment > > description. Because of that it is taken for granted that a GFac > invocation > > would have a host description and an application description associated > > with it. > > > > But it turns out to be little different when it comes to Hadoop, > specially > > in terms of host description. We cannot actually treat Hadoop run > > environment (Single node, Local cluster, EMR, etc) as a host, but rather > a > > runtime that could be described in a different file. (I would say > > TaskRuntimeDescritption.xml or even HadoopAccountDescription.xml as you > > have said). > > > > My initial approach was to completely ignore the notion of "host" when it > > comes to Hadoop but then decided to think of Hadoop runtime as a > variation > > of host (see my previous reply on this thread). Therefore, I am +1 for > > having a separate description file for runtimes. > > > > Thanks, > > Danushka > > > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Chathura Herath < > [email protected]>wrote: > > > >> Lets think about this a bit more. > >> Hadoop is a data driven model, which is very different from the MPI > >> model that we deal in scientific computing. When you launch an MPI > >> job the number of nodes are decided by you(meaning Suresh or Sudhakar > >> who configure the app ), who knows how many nodes are available and > >> required for the job. Now if you think about Hadoop, the number of > >> nodes/partitions are decides by the framework dynamically(may be using > >> the Formatters). I believe this is the reason why this idea of dynamic > >> node selection was left untouched for most art. > >> > >> I agree that we need a configuration file to store all the > >> configuration that are static for most part but required for hadoop > >> job launch. Current encapsulation of hadoop configuration is not the > >> best way and certainly be improved. > >> > >> Point i am trying to make is, may be what we need is a > >> HadoopAccountDescription.xml file instead of trying to push this to > >> the existing hostdescription. Their semantics are different as well as > >> the paremerters and model. The host description schema was defined > >> with super computing applications in mind may be this schema was > >> revisited since i last seen it and rethought. I wouldn't worry about > >> this if you are working on a conference paper due in three weeks. But > >> definitely something to think about. > >> > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Lahiru Gunathilake <[email protected] > > > >> wrote: > >> > Hi Danushka, > >> > > >> > > >> > I am +1 for this approach, but I am sure you need to patch gfac-core > >> > without breaking default gfac functionality. > >> > > >> > Lahiru > >> > > >> > > >> > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Danushka Menikkumbura < > >> > [email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> >> Hadoop deployment model (single node, local cluster, EMR, etc) is not > >> >> exactly a host, as in Airavata, but is along the lines of host IMO. > >> >> Therefore we can still stick to a similar model but need to have a > >> >> different UI interface to configure them. Still Hadoop jobs would be > >> >> treated differently and have them configured in workflow itself (i.e. > >> the > >> >> current implementation), as opposed to having them predefined as in > GFac > >> >> applications. > >> >> > >> >> Please kindly let me know if you think otherwise. > >> >> > >> >> Cheers, > >> >> Danushka > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Danushka Menikkumbura < > >> >> [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > >> >>> Hi All, > >> >>> > >> >>> The current UI implementation does not take application/host > >> description > >> >>> into account simply because they have little or no meaning in the > >> Hadoop > >> >>> world as I believe. The current implementation enables configuring > each > >> >>> individual job using the UI (Please see the attached > xbaya-hadoop.png). > >> >>> > >> >>> The upside of this approach is that new jobs could be > added/configured > >> >>> dynamically, without adding application descriptions/generating > >> >>> code/compiling/re-deploying/etc. The downside is that it is > different > >> from > >> >>> general GFac application invocation, where each application has an > >> >>> associated application/host/etc. Nevertheless we are trying to > >> incorporate > >> >>> something that does not quite fit into application/host domain. > >> >>> > >> >>> Thoughts appreciated. > >> >>> > >> >>> Thanks, > >> >>> Danushka > >> >>> > >> >> > >> >> > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > System Analyst Programmer > >> > PTI Lab > >> > Indiana University > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Chathura Herath Ph.D > >> http://people.apache.org/~chathura/ > >> http://chathurah.blogspot.com/ > >> > > > > -- > Chathura Herath Ph.D > http://people.apache.org/~chathura/ > http://chathurah.blogspot.com/ > -- https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~tgunarat/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/thilina http://thilina.gunarathne.org
