Twister is a lightweight MapReduce runtime we have developed by incorporating these enhancements. We have published several scientific papers [1-5] explaining the key concepts and comparing it with other MapReduce implementations such as Hadoop and DryadLINQ. Today we would like to announce its first release.
Key Features of Twister are:
- Distinction on static and variable data
- Configurable long running (cacheable) map/reduce tasks
- Pub/sub messaging based communication/data transfers
- Combine phase to collect all reduce outputs
- Efficient support for Iterative MapReduce computations (extremely faster than Hadoop or DryadLINQ)
- Data access via local disks
- Lightweight (5600 lines of code)
- Tools to manage data
Thank you,
SALSAHPC Team.
[1]. Jaliya Ekanayake, (Advisor: Geoffrey Fox) Architecture and Performance of Runtime Environments for Data Intensive Scalable Computing, Doctoral Showcase, SuperComputing2009.
[2]. Jaliya Ekanayake, Atilla Soner Balkir, Thilina Gunarathne, Geoffrey Fox, Christophe Poulain, Nelson Araujo, Roger Barga, DryadLINQ for Scientific Analyses, Fifth IEEE International Conference on e-Science (eScience2009), Oxford, UK.
[3]. Jaliya Ekanayake, Xiaohong Qiu, Thilina Gunarathne, Scott Beason, Geoffrey Fox High Performance Parallel Computing with Clouds and Cloud Technologies Technical Report August 25 2009 to appear as Book Chapter.
[4]. Geoffrey Fox, Seung-Hee Bae, Jaliya Ekanayake, Xiaohong Qiu, and Huapeng Yuan, Parallel Data Mining from Multicore to Cloudy Grids, High Performance Computing and Grids workshop, 2008. – An extended version of this paper goes to a book chapter.
[5]. Jaliya Ekanayake, Shrideep Pallickara, Geoffrey Fox, MapReduce for Data Intensive Scientific Analyses, Fourth IEEE International Conference on eScience, 2008, pp.277-284.