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High Performance Distributed Computing. Henri Bal Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Outline. 1. Development of the field 2. Highlights VU-HPDC group 3. Links to data science cycle 4. Conclusions. Developments. Multiple types of data explosions :
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High Performance Distributed Computing Henri Bal VrijeUniversiteit Amsterdam
Outline 1. Development of the field 2. Highlights VU-HPDC group 3. Links to data science cycle 4. Conclusions
Developments • Multiple types of data explosions: • Big data: huge processing/transportation demands • Complex heterogeneous data LOFAR: ~15 PB/year SKA: >300 PB/year, exascale processing Complex data
Developments • Infrastructure explosion • High complexity: heterogeneous systems with diversity of processors, systems, networks
VU HPDC GROUP • Bridge the gap between demanding applications and complex infrastructure • Distributed programming systems for • Clusters, grids, clouds • Accelerators (GPUs) • Heterogeneous systems (``Jungles”) • Clouds & mobile devices • Applications: multimedia, semantic web, model checking, games, astronomy, astrophysics, climate modeling ….
Highlights VU-HPDC group Solved Awari 2002 DACH 2008 - BS DACH 2008 - FT AAAI-VC 2007 3rd Prize: ISWC 2008 1st Prize: SCALE 2008 1st Prize: SCALE 2010 EYR 2011Sustainability award
Links to data science cycle Reasoning Knowledge representation Multimedia Retrieval Modelingandsimulation Machine Learning Information Retrieval DecisionTheory Perception Cognition Visual Analytics Distributed Processing Large Scale Databases Software Eng. System / Network Eng. Distributed reasoning Jungle computing MapReduce
Reasoning – Semantic Web • Make the Web smarter by injecting meaning so that machines can “understand” it. • initial idea by Tim Berners-Lee in 2001 • Now attracted the interest of big IT companies
Distributed Reasoning • WebPIE: web-scale distributed reasoner doing full materialization • QueryPIE: distributed reasoning with backward-chaining + pre-materialization of schema-triples • DynamiTE: maintains materialization after updates (additions & removals) • Challenge: real-time incremental reasoning on web scale, combining new (streaming) data & existing historic data With: Jacopo Urbani, Alessandro Margara, Frank van Harmelen Commit/
Glasswing: MapReduceon Accelerators • Use accelerators as a mainstream feature • Massive out-of-core data sets • Scale vertically & horizontally • Code portability using OpenCL • Maintain MapReduce abstraction With: Ismail El Helw, RutgerHofman
Glasswing Pipeline • Overlaps computation, communication & disk access • Supports multiple buffering levels
Evaluation of Glasswing • Glasswing uses CPU, memory & disk resources more efficiently than Hadoop • Compute-bound applications benefit dramatically from GPUs • Better scalability than Hadoop • Runs on a variety of accelerators • E.g. k-means clustering: • 8.5× (1 node) vs.15.5 × (64 nodes) vs. 107 × (GPU node)