Author: edwardyoon Date: Wed Feb 1 00:35:07 2012 New Revision: 1238880 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1238880&view=rev Log: Website Improvements
Modified: incubator/hama/trunk/CHANGES.txt incubator/hama/trunk/src/site/xdoc/index.xml Modified: incubator/hama/trunk/CHANGES.txt URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/hama/trunk/CHANGES.txt?rev=1238880&r1=1238879&r2=1238880&view=diff ============================================================================== --- incubator/hama/trunk/CHANGES.txt (original) +++ incubator/hama/trunk/CHANGES.txt Wed Feb 1 00:35:07 2012 @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ Release 0.4 - Unreleased IMPROVEMENTS + HAMA-460: Website Improvements (Suraj Menon via edwardyoon) HAMA-470: The web UI should display the version of running Hama cluster. (Suraj Menon via edwardyoon) HAMA-475: Add unit test for SSSP example (edwardyoon) HAMA-481: Add reopen to peer (tjungblut) Modified: incubator/hama/trunk/src/site/xdoc/index.xml URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/hama/trunk/src/site/xdoc/index.xml?rev=1238880&r1=1238879&r2=1238880&view=diff ============================================================================== --- incubator/hama/trunk/src/site/xdoc/index.xml (original) +++ incubator/hama/trunk/src/site/xdoc/index.xml Wed Feb 1 00:35:07 2012 @@ -25,16 +25,16 @@ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache. <section name="Apache Hama"></section> <img src="images/hama_art_arthur_300x220.png" align="right" style="margin-top:-20px;margin-left:20px;margin-right:20px;" /> <p> - <strong>Apache Hama</strong> is a Pure BSP computing framework on top of Hadoop HDFS for massive scientific computations - e.g., matrix, graph and network algorithms. Currently, it has follow features: + <strong>Apache Hama</strong> is a pure BSP(Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing framework on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive scientific computations + such as matrix, graph and network algorithms. Currently, it has the following features: </p> <ul> <li>Job submission and management interface.</li> <li>Multiple tasks per node.</li> <li>Input/Output Formatter.</li> <li>Checkpoint recovery.</li> - <li>Supports to run in the Clouds using <a href="hama_on_clouds.html">Apache Whirr</a>.</li> - <li>Supports to run with Hadoop YARN.</li> + <li>Support to run in the Cloud using <a href="hama_on_clouds.html">Apache Whirr</a>.</li> + <li>Support to run with Hadoop YARN.</li> </ul> <br/> <table class="green" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="1"> @@ -48,8 +48,7 @@ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache. </ul> </td></tr></table> <subsection name="Why Hama and BSP?"></subsection> - <p>Today, many practical data processing applications requires a good scalability, a flexible model, a high compatibility with existing data systems e.g., HDFS, HBase, and especially a communication capability which allows to exchange information using message-passing paradigm beyond MapReduce. - Here, Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP) model fills the bill nicely and besides, it has several main advantages over MapReduce and MPI:</p> + <p>Today, many practical data processing applications require a more flexible programming abstraction model that is compatible to run on highly scalable and massive data systems (e.g., HDFS, HBase, etc). A message passing paradigm beyond Map-Reduce framework would increase its flexibility in its communication capability. Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP) model fills the bill appropriately. Some of its significant advantages over MapReduce and MPI are:</p> <ul> <li>Supports message passing paradigm style of application development</li> <li>Provides a flexible, simple, and easy-to-use small APIs</li>