There is a recent discussion on academic projects on Spark. Take a look at the replies to that email (unfortunately you have to dig through the archive to find the replies): http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spark-dev/201312.mbox/%3CCAHH8_ON-2y69fBfVtt6pngWtEPOZdsmvt4hZ=doe-dzsk6k...@mail.gmail.com%3E
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Фёдор Короткий <pr...@yandex-team.ru>wrote: > Hi, > > Currently I'm pursuing a masters degree in CS and I'm in search of my year > project theme (in distributed systems field), and Spark seems very > interesting to me. > > Can you suggest some problems or ideas to work on? > > By the way, what is the status of external sorting( > https://spark-project.atlassian.net/browse/SPARK-983)? >