Ya we've been trying to standardize on the terminology here (see glossary):
http://spark.incubator.apache.org/docs/latest/cluster-overview.html I think "slave" actually isn't mentioned here at all - but references to slave in the codebase are synonymous with "worker". - Patrick On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote: > It is historic. > > I think we are converging towards > > worker: the "slave" daemon in the standalone cluster manager > > executor: the jvm process that is launched by the worker that executes tasks > > > > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Andrew Ash <and...@andrewash.com> wrote: > >> The terms worker and slave seem to be used interchangeably. Are they the >> same? >> >> Worker is used more frequently in the codebase: >> >> aash@aash-mbp ~/git/spark$ git grep -i worker | wc -l >> 981 >> aash@aash-mbp ~/git/spark$ git grep -i slave | wc -l >> 348 >> aash@aash-mbp ~/git/spark$ >> >> Does it make sense to unify on one or the other? >>
