Hi Sachin, Do you know about Broadcast Variables? They allow you to transfer a DataSet to all nodes.
https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/apis/programming_guide.html#broadcast-variables Let us know if that fits your needs. Cheers, Max On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Sachin Goel <sachingoel0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all > Is it possible to send and receive key,value pairs at runtime? I would like > to broadcast values at runtime so they are available on every node. This > somehow seems essential for an implementation of Asynchronous batch > iterations. > > What I would like is to have two functions in the RuntimeContext, > broadcast(key,value) and receive(key). > If such a thing doesn't exist now, how should I approach implementing it? > > Cheers! > Sachin > -- Sachin Goel > Computer Science, IIT Delhi > m. +91-9871457685 >