Processing Rat Brain Neuronal Signals Using a Hadoop Computing Cluster – Part II by Jadin C. Jackson, PhD & Bradley S. Rubin, PhD.
From the post:
As mentioned in Part I, although Hadoop and other Big Data technologies are typically applied to I/O intensive workloads, where parallel data channels dramatically increase I/O throughput, there is growing interest in applying these technologies to CPU intensive workloads. In this work, we used Hadoop and Hive to digitally signal process individual neuron voltage signals captured from electrodes embedded in the rat brain. Previously, this processing was performed on a single Matlab workstation, a workload that was both CPU intensive and data intensive, especially for intermediate output data. With Hadoop/Hive, we were not only able to apply parallelism to the various processing steps, but had the additional benefit of having all the data online for additional ad hoc analysis. Here, we describe the technical details of our implementation, including the biological relevance of the neural signals and analysis parameters. In Part III, we will then describe the tradeoffs between the Matlab and Hadoop/Hive approach, performance results, and several issues identified with using Hadoop/Hive in this type of application.
Details of the setup for processing rat brain signals with Hadoop.
Looking back, I did not see any mention of data sets? Perhaps in part III?