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September 15, 2014

Open source datacenter computing with Apache Mesos

Filed under: Data Management,Data Repositories,Mesos — Patrick Durusau @ 9:26 am

Open source datacenter computing with Apache Mesos by Sachin P. Bappalige.

From the post:

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications or frameworks. Mesos is a open source software originally developed at the University of California at Berkeley. It sits between the application layer and the operating system and makes it easier to deploy and manage applications in large-scale clustered environments more efficiently. It can run many applications on a dynamically shared pool of nodes. Prominent users of Mesos include Twitter, Airbnb, MediaCrossing, Xogito and Categorize.

Mesos leverages features of the modern kernel—”cgroups” in Linux, “zones” in Solaris—to provide isolation for CPU, memory, I/O, file system, rack locality, etc. The big idea is to make a large collection of heterogeneous resources. 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. It is a thin resource sharing layer that enables fine-grained sharing across diverse cluster computing frameworks, by giving frameworks a common interface for accessing cluster resources.The idea is to deploy multiple distributed systems to a shared pool of nodes in order to increase resource utilization. A lot of modern workloads and frameworks can run on Mesos, including Hadoop, Memecached, Ruby on Rails, Storm, JBoss Data Grid, MPI, Spark and Node.js, as well as various web servers, databases and application servers.

This introduction to Apache Mesos will give you a quick overview of what Mesos has to offer without getting bogged down in details. Details will come later, either if you want to run a datacenter using Mesos or to map a datacenter being run with Mesos.

January 8, 2014

Elastic Mesos

Filed under: Amazon Web Services AWS,Clustering (servers),Mesos — Patrick Durusau @ 7:21 pm

Mesosphere Launches Elastic Mesos, Makes Setting Up A Mesos Cluster A 3-Step Process by Frederic Lardinois.

From the post:

Mesosphere, a startup that focuses on developing Mesos, a technology that makes running complex distributed applications easier, is launching Elastic Mesos today. This new product makes setting up a Mesos cluster on Amazon Web Services a basic three-step process that asks you for the size of the cluster you want to set up, your AWS credentials and an email where you want to get notifications about your cluster’s state.

Given the complexity of setting up a regular Mesos cluster, this new project will make it easier for developers to experiment with Mesos and the frameworks Mesosphere and others have created around it.

As Mesosphere’s founder Florian Leibert describes it, for many applications, the data center is now the computer. Most applications now run on distributed systems, but connecting all of the distributed parts is often still a manual process. Mesos’ job is to abstract away all of these complexities and to ensure that an application can treat the data center and all your nodes as a single computer. Instead of setting up various server clusters for different parts of your application, Mesos creates a shared pool of servers where resources can be allocated dynamically as needed.

Remote computing isn’t as secure as my NATO SDIP-27 Level A (formerly AMSG 720B) and USA NSTISSAM Level I conformant office but there is a trade-off between maintenance/upgrade of local equipment and the convenience of remote computing.

In the near future, all forms of digital communication will be secure from the NSA and others. Before Snowden, it was widely known in a vague sense that the NSA and others were spying on U.S. citizens and others. Post-Snowden, user demand will result in vendors developing secure communications with two settings, secure and very secure.

Ironic that overreaching by the NSA will result in greater privacy for everyone of interest to the NSA.

PS: See Learn how to use Apache Mesos as well.

October 1, 2013

Apache Aurora

Filed under: Distributed Computing,Distributed Systems,Mesos — Patrick Durusau @ 6:26 pm

Apache Aurora

Apache Aurora entered incubation today!

From the webpage:

Aurora is a service scheduler used to schedule jobs onto Apache Mesos.

Oh, Apache Mesos?

From the webpage:

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications, or frameworks. It can run Hadoop, MPI, Hypertable, Spark, and other applications on a dynamically shared pool of nodes.

All the wiring is still pretty close to the surface but that’s not going to last long.

Better to learn it now while people still think it is hard. 😉

August 27, 2013

Analytics and Machine Learning at Scale [Aug. 29-30]

Filed under: BlinkDB,GraphX,Mesos,MLBase,Shark,Spark,Tachyon — Patrick Durusau @ 6:40 pm

AMP Camp Three – Analytics and Machine Learning at Scale

From the webpage:

AMP Camp Three – Analytics and Machine Learning at Scale will be held in Berkeley California, August 29-30, 2013. AMP Camp 3 attendees and online viewers will learn to solve big data problems using components of the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS) and cutting edge machine learning algorithms.

Live streaming!

Sessions will cover (among other things): Mesos, Spark, Shark, Spark Streaming, BlinkDB, MLbase, Tachyon and GraphX.

Talk about a jolt before the weekend!

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