Thanks for interesting information. With hindsight, IMO, the Hama project is a best to incubate Hamburg project. and, we can consider again when prepare to graduate from incubator.
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Taylor, Ronald C <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Mr. Yoon, > > I was delighted to hear of your proposed Hamburg project. I am a new > user of Hadoop (and Hbase). It looks like that I will be spending a > substantial amount of time working in this environment over the next > couple years, for both DOE bioinformatics work (my primary field) and > for work funded by DoD. I am enthusiastic about using Hadoop, Hive, > Hbase. Also am quite interested in the Mahout project. > > While I cannot offer advice as to where to place your new project within > the Apache framework, I did want to offer my support. I believe that it > could well be of value in the coming years both to me, for my > bioinformatics research, and to other researchers here at PNNL working > in the areas of social networks (in our national security directorate) > and in a set of projects directed toward making the electrical grid > "smarter". I would not be able to contribute any code until I found > funding from current or new projects for my time. But if Hamburg moves > forward and can demonstrate its usefulness, that might be a real > possibility. > > And in regards to funding for getting you some help: if you can find a > collaborator based at a university or non-profit, said collaborator > could well apply for a grant from the US National Science Foundation for > open source Hadoop-based development of graph computing / mining > algorithms. The NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering > Directorate is awarding grants specifically devoted to the area of graph > mining (at least this year - hopefully will continue next year - anyway, > NSF gives money for algorithm and tool development in general - friendly > to that). I can't apply (at least not directly) - NSF does not like to > give money to other US government labs. But I would think you could find > someone in academia - perhaps someone already working with the Mahout > group. It would appear a natural fit. I presume there are a number of > people associated with the Apache org who know something about the NSF > and could offer further advice in that direction. > > I look forward to hearing more about Hamburg, as it progresses. > > Best, > Ron Taylor > > ___________________________________________ > Ronald Taylor, Ph.D. > Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Group > Pacific Northwest National Laboratory > 902 Battelle Boulevard > P.O. Box 999, MSIN K7-90 > Richland, WA 99352 USA > Office: 509-372-6568 > Email: [email protected] > www.pnl.gov > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward > J. Yoon > Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 7:27 PM > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected] > Cc: Paolo Castagna > Subject: Discussion about Hamburg (provisional name) open sourcing > > Hello communities, > > I'm the one of the Hamburg (provisional name), which is the graph > computing framework on Hadoop sponsor. Now we're working on the > perfection of our prototype project, and we'll propose the Hamburg > project soon. > > - http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hamburg, a wiki page > - http://throb.googlecode.com/, a prototype project > > BTW, before we decide to propose, we need time just to consider where it > belongs to. > > Since it aims to create a "general graph computing framework" on Hadoop, > I'd like to propose it as a sub-project of Hadoop. On the other hand, > since the matrix and graph are both in the domain of scientific > computing and BSP model could be used for matrix computation areas, I > think this project also can be integrated with the Hama project. > > WDYT? Any advices are welcome. > > -- > Best Regards, Edward J. Yoon @ NHN, corp. > [email protected] > http://blog.udanax.org > -- Best Regards, Edward J. Yoon @ NHN, corp. [email protected] http://blog.udanax.org
