good to know about it! thanks! On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Nathaniel Stickley <idi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Mesos users, > > I am not sure that this is the best place for this announcement, but I > thought it would be worth a try... > > The Multidisciplinary Image Processing Laboratory at the University of > California, Riverside, is announcing a Mesos-based Big Data framework for > scientific computing. The project is currently called StratOS (because it > is closer to the user than Mesos). > > Although StratOS is primarily designed for scientists, it is useful for a > much larger group of people because of its generality. StratOS can be > thought of as a step between classical batch processors, like TORQUE, and > the modern framework, Apache Spark. It is an HDFS-aware framework that > allows arbitrary command-line-driven applications to be used in a > datacenter. Pre-existing code can be used without modification and a Python > module is provided for interactive use and scripting. The intuitive > interface and compatibility with older software makes it quite attractive > to scientists who have limited coding skills and limited resources with > which to hire software professionals. > > The project page: https://bitbucket.org/stratos-project/stratos > > The formal announcement, submitted to Astronomy and Computing: > http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02233 > > The project is in its infancy, but it is already being used to analyze a > 'multiverse' simulation (an ensemble of cosmological simulations) at UC > Riverside. Proper installation scripts have not yet been written, but > people on this mailing list should have very little difficulty. > > Feel free to contribute! > > Regards, > > Nathaniel R. Stickley, Ph.D. > Assistant Project Scientist > Department of Physics and Astronomy > University of California, Riverside >
