Dear Incubator PMC, There has been some discussion around the Hama proposal, and we would now like to officially propose Hama to the Incubator for consideration, with Grant Ingersoll's +1.
Please vote on accepting the Hama project for incubation. The full Hama proposal is available at the end of this message and as a wiki page at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/HamaProposal. We ask the Incubator PMC to sponsor the Hama podling, with myself, Ian Holsman, and Jeff Eastman as the mentors. The vote is open for the next 72 hours and only votes from the Incubator PMC are binding. [ ] +1 Accept Hama as a new podling [ ] -1 Do not accept the new podling (provide reason, please) ---- == Abstract == Hama will develop a parallel matrix computational package based on [http://hadoop.apache.org Hadoop] Map/Reduce. == Proposal == Hama will develop a parallel matrix computational package, which provides an library of matrix operations for the large-scale processing development environment and Map/Reduce framework for the large-scale Numerical Analysis and Data Mining, which need the intensive computation power of matrix inversion, e.g. linear regression, PCA, SVM and etc. It will be also useful for many scientific applications, e.g. physics computations, linear algebra, computational fluid dynamics, statistics, graphic rendering and many more. == Background == Currently, several shared-memory based parallel matrix solutions can provide a scalable and high performance matrix operations, but matrix resources can not be scalable in the term of complexity. And, Hadoop HDFS Files and Map/Reduce can only used by 1D blocked algorithm. == Rationale == Hama approach proposes the use of 3-dimensional Row and Column (Qualifier), Time space and multi-dimensional Columnfamilies of [http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase Hbase], which is able to store large sparse and various type of matrices (e.g. Triangular Matrix, 3D Matrix, and etc.) and utilize the 2D blocked algorithm. its auto-partitioned sparsity sub-structure will be efficiently managed and serviced by Hbase. Row and Column operations can be done in linear-time, where several algorithms, such as ''structured Gaussian elimination'' or ''iterative methods'', run in O(the number of non-zero elements in the matrix / number of mappers) time on Hadoop Map/Reduce. == Current Status == In its current state, the 'hama' is buggy and needs filling out, but generalized matrix interface and basic linear algebra operations was implemented within a large prototype system. In the future, We need new parallel algorithms based on Map/Reduce for performance of heavy decompositions and factorizations. It also needs tools to compose an arbitrary matrix only with certain data filtered from hbase array structure. == Meritocracy == The initial developers are very familiar with meritocratic open source development, both at Apache and elsewhere. Apache was chosen specifically because the initial developers want to encourage this style of development for the project. === Community === Hama seeks to develop developer and user communities during incubation. == Core Developers == The initial set of committers includes folks from the [http://hadoop.apache.org Hadoop] & [http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase Hbase] communities. We have varying degrees of experience with Apache-style open source development, ranging from none to ASF Members. == Alignment == The developers of Hama want to work with the Apache Software Foundation specifically because Apache has proven to provide a strong foundation and set of practices for developing standards-based infrastructure and server components. == Known Risks == === Orphaned products === Most of the active developers would like to become Hama Committers or PMC Members and have long term interest to develop/maintain and '''use''' the code. === Inexperience with Open Source === We has already a good experience with Apache open source development process. === Homogenous Developers === The current list of committers includes developers from several different companies ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHN NHN, corp], TMAX software, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Students) plus many independent volunteers. The committers are geographically distributed across the Europe, and Asia. They are experienced with working in a distributed environment. === Reliance on Salaried Developers === It is expected that Hama development will occur on both salaried time and on volunteer time, after hours. While there is reliance on salaried developers (currently from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHN NHN, corp], but it's expected that other company's salaried developers will also be involved), the Hama Community is very active and things should balance out fairly quickly. In the meantime, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHN NHN, corp] might support the project in the future by dedicating 'work time' to Hama, so that there is a smooth transition. === Relationships with Other Apache Products === Hama has a strong relationship with Apache [http://hadoop.apache.org Hadoop], [http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase Hbase] and [http://lucene.apache.org/mahout Mahout]. Being part of Apache could help for a closer collaboration between the three projects. === A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand === We believe in the processes, systems, and framework Apache has put in place. The brand is nice, but is not why we wish to come to Apache. == Documentation == * http://code.google.com/p/hama/w/list == Initial Source == * http://code.google.com/p/hama/source/checkout == External Dependencies == * Hadoop (HDFS, Map/Reduce) License: Apache License, 2.0 * Hbase (Sparse Matrix Table) License: Apache License, 2.0 == Required Resources == * Developer and user mailing lists * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * A subversion repository * https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/hama * A JIRA issue tracker == Initial Committers == * Edward J. Yoon, (edward AT udanax DOT org) * Chanwit Kaewkasi, (chanwit AT gmail DOT com) * Cha MinChang, (minslovey AT gmail DOT com) * Suh ChangHee, (bluesvm AT gmail DOT com) * Ha Yongho, (yongho.ha AT gmail DOT com) * Hong Taehui, (hongtebari AT gmail DOT com) * Yoon JooSun, (ologist0 AT gmail DOT com) * Takkiel Shim, (tkshim AT gmail DOT com) * Donguk Choi, (alloe130 AT gmail DOT com) == Sponsors == === Nominated Mentors === * Ian Holsman, (ianh AT apache DOT org) * Jeff Eastman, (jeastman AT windwardsolutions DOT com) * Edward J. Yoon, (edward AT udanax DOT org) === Sponsoring Entity === The Apache Incubator. -- B. Regards, Edward J. Yoon, http://blog.udanax.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
