+1 for worker =)
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Patrick Wendell <pwend...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? >>>
