Enhancing VLAM Workflow Model with MapReduce Operations

Mikolaj Baranowski, Adam Belloum, Marian Bubak

2013

Abstract

MapReduce frameworks proved to be a good solution for storing and processing large amounts of data. Thanks to data parallelism, they allow to move computations very close to the storage and therefore to reduce an influence of “I/O bottleneck”. Workflow Management Systems, in turn, are widely used for modeling of scientific applications. Users that are willing to use MapReduce frameworks in their workflows have to run separate environment to develop Map/Reduce operations. In this paper we propose an approach that will allow to extend existing application models by MapReduce routines. Our solution bases on DSL constructed on top of Ruby programming language. It follows examples of Sawzall and Pig Latin languages and allows to define Map/Reduce operations in minimalist way. Moreover, because the language is based on Ruby, the model allows to use user defined routines and existing Ruby libraries. A particular model of the workflow management system can be extended with our DSL letting users to use one environment for developing the workflow and MapReduce application.

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Baranowski M., Belloum A. and Bubak M. (2013). Enhancing VLAM Workflow Model with MapReduce Operations . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH, ISBN 978-989-8565-69-3, pages 179-185. DOI: 10.5220/0004488401790185


in Bibtex Style

@conference{simultech13,
author={Mikolaj Baranowski and Adam Belloum and Marian Bubak},
title={Enhancing VLAM Workflow Model with MapReduce Operations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,},
year={2013},
pages={179-185},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004488401790185},
isbn={978-989-8565-69-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,
TI - Enhancing VLAM Workflow Model with MapReduce Operations
SN - 978-989-8565-69-3
AU - Baranowski M.
AU - Belloum A.
AU - Bubak M.
PY - 2013
SP - 179
EP - 185
DO - 10.5220/0004488401790185