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Resilient distributed datasets: A fault-tolerant abstraction for in-memory cluster computing
, 2011
"... We present Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs), a distributed memory abstraction that lets programmers perform in-memory computations on large clusters in a fault-tolerant manner. RDDs are motivated by two types of applications that current computing frameworks handle inefficiently: iterative algo ..."
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We present Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs), a distributed memory abstraction that lets programmers perform in-memory computations on large clusters in a fault-tolerant manner. RDDs are motivated by two types of applications that current computing frameworks handle inefficiently: iterative algorithms and interactive data mining tools. In both cases, keeping data in memory can improve performance by an order of magnitude. To achieve fault tolerance efficiently, RDDs provide a restricted form of shared memory, based on coarsegrained transformations rather than fine-grained updates to shared state. However, we show that RDDs are expressive enough to capture a wide class of computations, including recent specialized programming models for iterative jobs, such as Pregel, and new applications that these models do not capture. We have implemented RDDs in a system called Spark, which we evaluate through a variety of user applications and benchmarks. 1
Mesos: A platform for fine-grained resource sharing in the data center
, 2010
"... We present Mesos, a platform for sharing commodity clusters between multiple diverse cluster computing frameworks, such as Hadoop and MPI 1. Sharing improves cluster utilization and avoids per-framework data replication. Mesos shares resources in a fine-grained manner, allowing frameworks to achieve ..."
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We present Mesos, a platform for sharing commodity clusters between multiple diverse cluster computing frameworks, such as Hadoop and MPI 1. Sharing improves cluster utilization and avoids per-framework data replication. Mesos shares resources in a fine-grained manner, allowing frameworks to achieve data locality by taking turns reading data stored on each machine. To support the sophisticated schedulers of today’s frameworks, Mesos introduces a distributed two-level scheduling mechanism called resource offers. Mesos decides how many resources to offer each framework, while frameworks decide which resources to accept and which computations to run on them. Our experimental results show that Mesos can achieve near-optimal locality when sharing the cluster among diverse frameworks, can scale up to 50,000 nodes, and is resilient to node failures.
Managing data transfers in computer clusters . . .
, 2011
"... Cluster computing applications like MapReduce and Dryad transfer massive amounts of data between their computation stages. These transfers can have a significant impact on job performance, accounting for more than 50 % of job completion times. Despite this impact, there has been relatively little wo ..."
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Cluster computing applications like MapReduce and Dryad transfer massive amounts of data between their computation stages. These transfers can have a significant impact on job performance, accounting for more than 50 % of job completion times. Despite this impact, there has been relatively little work on optimizing the performance of these data transfers, with networking researchers traditionally focusing on per-flow traffic management. We address this limitation by proposing a global management architecture and a set of algorithms that (1) improve the transfer times of common communication patterns, such as broadcast and shuffle, and (2) allow scheduling policies at the transfer level, such as prioritizing a transfer over other transfers. Using a prototype implementation, we show that our solution improves broadcast completion times by up to 4.5 × compared to the status quo in Hadoop. We also show that transfer-level scheduling can reduce the completion time of highpriority transfers by 1.7×.
Naiad: A Timely Dataflow System
"... Naiad is a distributed system for executing data parallel, cyclic dataflow programs. It offers the high throughput of batch processors, the low latency of stream processors, and the ability to perform iterative and incremental computations. Although existing systems offer some of these features, app ..."
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Naiad is a distributed system for executing data parallel, cyclic dataflow programs. It offers the high throughput of batch processors, the low latency of stream processors, and the ability to perform iterative and incremental computations. Although existing systems offer some of these features, applications that require all three have relied on multiple platforms, at the expense of efficiency, maintainability, and simplicity. Naiad resolves the complexities of combining these features in one framework. A new computational model, timely dataflow, underlies Naiad and captures opportunities for parallelism across a wide class of algorithms. This model enriches dataflow computation with timestamps that represent logical points in the computation and provide the basis for an efficient, lightweight coordination mechanism. We show that many powerful high-level programming models can be built on Naiad’s low-level primitives, enabling such diverse tasks as streaming data analysis, iterative machine learning, and interactive graph mining. Naiad outperforms specialized systems in their target application domains, and its unique features enable the development of new high-performance applications. 1
Jockey: Guaranteed Job Latency in Data Parallel Clusters
"... Data processing frameworks such as MapReduce [8] and Dryad [11] are used today in business environments where customers expect guaranteed performance. To date, however, these systems are not capable of providing guarantees on job latency because scheduling policies are based on fairsharing, and oper ..."
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Data processing frameworks such as MapReduce [8] and Dryad [11] are used today in business environments where customers expect guaranteed performance. To date, however, these systems are not capable of providing guarantees on job latency because scheduling policies are based on fairsharing, and operators seek high cluster use through statistical multiplexing and over-subscription. With Jockey, we provide latency SLOs for data parallel jobs written in SCOPE. Jockey precomputes statistics using a simulator that captures the job’s complex internal dependencies, accurately and efficiently predicting the remaining run time at different resource allocations and in different stages of the job. Our control policy monitors a job’s performance, and dynamically adjusts resource allocation in the shared cluster in order to maximize the job’s economic utility while minimizing its impact on the rest of the cluster. In our experiments in Microsoft’s production Cosmos clusters, Jockey meets the specified job latency SLOs and responds to changes in cluster conditions.
iMapReduce: A Distributed Computing Framework for Iterative Computation
, 2012
"... Iterative computation is pervasive in many applications such as data mining, web ranking, graph analysis, online social network analysis, and so on. These iterative applications typically involve massive data sets containing millions or billions of data records. This poses demand of distributed co ..."
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Iterative computation is pervasive in many applications such as data mining, web ranking, graph analysis, online social network analysis, and so on. These iterative applications typically involve massive data sets containing millions or billions of data records. This poses demand of distributed computing frameworks for processing massive data sets on a cluster of machines. MapReduce is an example of such a framework. However,
Re-optimizing data-parallel computing
- In Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI
, 2012
"... Abstract – Performant execution of data-parallel jobs needs good execution plans. Certain properties of the code, the data, and the interaction between them are crucial to generate these plans. Yet, these properties are difcult to estimate due to the highly distributed nature of these frameworks, th ..."
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Abstract – Performant execution of data-parallel jobs needs good execution plans. Certain properties of the code, the data, and the interaction between them are crucial to generate these plans. Yet, these properties are difcult to estimate due to the highly distributed nature of these frameworks, the freedom that allows users to specify arbitrary code as operations on the data, and since jobs in modern clusters have evolved beyond single map and reduce phases to logical graphs of operations. Using xed apriori estimates of these properties to choose execution plans, as modern systems do, leads to poor performance in several instances. We present RoPE, a rst step towards re-optimizing data-parallel jobs. RoPE collects certain code and data properties by piggybacking on job execution. It adapts execution plans by feeding these properties to a query optimizer. We show how this improves the future invocations of the same (and similar) jobs and characterize the scenarios of bene t. Experiments on Bing’s production clusters show up to × improvement across response time for production jobs at th the percentile while using. × fewer resources. 1.
Priter: a distributed framework for prioritized iterative computations
- IN: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2ND ACM SYMPOSIUM ON CLOUD COMPUTING (SOCC ’11
, 2011
"... Iterative computations are pervasive among data analysis applications in the cloud, including Web search, online social network analysis, recommendation systems, and so on. These cloud applications typically involve data sets of massive scale. Fast convergence of the iterative computation on the mas ..."
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Iterative computations are pervasive among data analysis applications in the cloud, including Web search, online social network analysis, recommendation systems, and so on. These cloud applications typically involve data sets of massive scale. Fast convergence of the iterative computation on the massive data set is essential for these applications. In this paper, we explore the opportunity for accelerating iterative computations and propose a distributed computing framework, PrIter, which enables fast iterative computation by providing the support of prioritized iteration. Instead of performing computations on all data records without discrimination, PrIter prioritizes the computations that help convergence the most, so that the convergence speed of iterative process is significantly improved. We evaluate PrIter on a local cluster of machines as well as on Amazon EC2 Cloud. The results show that PrIter achieves up to 50x speedup over Hadoop for a series of iterative algorithms.
Camdoop: Exploiting In-network Aggregation for Big Data Applications
- In NSDI
, 2012
"... Large companies like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft as well as a number of small and medium enterprises daily process massive amounts of data in batch jobs and in real time applications. This generates high network traffic, which is hard to support using traditional, oversubscribed, network infrast ..."
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Large companies like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft as well as a number of small and medium enterprises daily process massive amounts of data in batch jobs and in real time applications. This generates high network traffic, which is hard to support using traditional, oversubscribed, network infrastructures. To address this issue, several novel network topologies have been proposed, aiming at increasing the bandwidth available in enterprise clusters. We observe that in many of the commonly used work-loads, data is aggregated during the process and the output size is a fraction of the input size. This motivated us to ex-plore a different point in the design space. Instead of in-creasing the bandwidth, we focus on decreasing the traffic by pushing aggregation from the edge into the network. We built Camdoop, a MapReduce-like system running on CamCube, a cluster design that uses a direct-connect network topology with servers directly linked to other servers. Camdoop exploits the property that CamCube servers forward traffic to perform in-network aggrega-tion of data during the shuffle phase. Camdoop supports the same functions used in MapReduce and is compati-ble with existing MapReduce applications. We demon-strate that, in common cases, Camdoop significantly re-duces the network traffic and provides high performance increase over a version of Camdoop running over a switch and against two production systems, Hadoop and Dryad/DryadLINQ. 1
Differential dataflow
"... Existing computational models for processing continuously changing input data are unable to efficiently support iterative queries except in limited special cases. This makes it difficult to perform complex tasks, such as social-graph analysis on changing data at interactive timescales, which would g ..."
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Existing computational models for processing continuously changing input data are unable to efficiently support iterative queries except in limited special cases. This makes it difficult to perform complex tasks, such as social-graph analysis on changing data at interactive timescales, which would greatly benefit those analyzing the behavior of services like Twitter. In this paper we introduce a new model called differential computation, which extends traditional incremental computation to allow arbitrarily nested iteration, and explain—with reference to a publicly available prototype system called Naiad—how differential computation can be efficiently implemented in the context of a declarative dataparallel dataflow language. The resulting system makes it easy to program previously intractable algorithms such as incrementally updated strongly connected components, and integrate them with data transformation operations to obtain practically relevant insights from real data streams. 1.
