+1 - IMHO this is a great addition to ASF. Good luck :). On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Tom White <tomwh...@apache.org> wrote: > +1 Mesos will fit in well with other ASF projects like Hadoop and HBase. > > Tom > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Matei Zaharia <ma...@apache.org> wrote: >> We would like to propose Mesos as an incubator proposal. >> >> Mesos is a resource manager for clusters that provides resource sharing and >> isolation across distributed applications like Apache Hadoop, MPI, or web >> applications. It started as a research project at UC Berkeley, but is now >> being used both by other Berkeley groups and at Twitter. We open sourced >> Mesos in August and would like to grow a broader community around it. >> >> Our proposal is included below and available on the wiki at >> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/MesosProposal. We look forward to hearing >> feedback and questions on the proposal. Also, let us know if you're >> interested in being a mentor. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Matei Zaharia, Benjamin Hindman, Andy Konwinski, and Ali Ghodsi >> >> >> >> = Abstract = >> >> Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and >> isolation across cluster applications. >> >> >> >> = Proposal = >> >> Mesos is system for sharing resources between cluster applications such >> as Hadoop MapReduce, HBase, MPI, and web applications. >> It is motivated by three use cases. First, organizations that use >> several of these applications can use Mesos to share nodes between them, >> increasing utilization and simplifying management. Second, inspired by >> MapReduce, a wide array of new cluster programming frameworks are being >> proposed, such as Apache Hama, Microsoft Dryad, and Google's Pregel and >> Caffeine. Mesos provides a common interface for such frameworks to share >> resources, allowing organizations to use multiple frameworks in the same >> cluster. Third, Mesos allows users of a framework such as Hadoop to have >> multiple instances of the framework on the same cluster, facilitating >> workload isolation and incremental deployment of upgrades. >> >> >> >> = Background = >> >> Mesos was inspired by operational issues experienced in large Apache Hadoop >> deployments as well as a desire to provide a management system for a >> wider range of cluster applications. The Apache Hadoop community has long >> realized that the current model of having one instance of MapReduce >> control a whole cluster leads to problems with isolation (one job may >> cause the master to crash, killing all the other jobs), scalability, >> and software upgrades (an upgrade must be deployed on the whole cluster). >> Statically partitioning resources into multiple fixed-size MapReduce clusters >> is unattractive because it lowers both utilization and data locality. >> The community has discussed a two-level scheduling model where a simple, >> robust low-level layer enables multiple applications to launch tasks >> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-279). Mesos is such a layer, >> with the additional goal of supporting non-Hadoop applications as well. >> >> Mesos started as a research project at UC Berkeley, but is now being >> tested at several companies (including Twitter and Facebook), and has >> attracted >> interest from other industry users and researchers as well. We are >> therefore proposing to place Mesos in the Apache incubator and build an >> open source community around it. >> >> >> >> = Rationale = >> >> Although a variety of cluster schedulers (e.g. Torque, Sun Grid Engine) >> already exist in the scientific computing community, they are not well >> suited for today's data center environment. >> These schedulers generally give jobs coarse-grained static allocations of >> the cluster (e.g. X nodes for the full duration of the job). >> This is problematic because many cluster applications are elastic >> (can scale up and down), so utilization is not optimal under static >> partitioning, and because data-intensive applications such as MapReduce >> need to run a few tasks on every node of the cluster to read data locally. >> To address these challenges, Mesos is designed around two principles: >> >> * Fine-grained sharing: Mesos allocates resources at the level of "tasks" >> within a job, allowing applications to scale up and down over time and >> to take turns accessing data on cluster nodes. >> * Application-controlled scheduling: Applications control which nodes >> their tasks run on, allowing them to achieve placement goals such as >> data locality. >> >> In addition to these principles, Mesos is designed to be simple, scalable >> and robust, becuase a cluster manager must be highly available to support >> applications and should not become a bottleneck. Application-controlled >> scheduling already simplifies our design by pushing much of the complex >> logic of tracking job state to applications. In addition, Mesos employs an >> optimized C++ message-passing library to achieve scalability and supports >> master failover using Apache ZooKeeper. >> >> Mesos already supports running Hadoop and MPI. We plan to add support >> for other systems as requested (and contributed) by the community. >> >> >> >> = Current Status = >> >> == Meritocracy == >> >> Our intent with this incubator proposal is to start building a diverse >> developer community around Mesos following the Apache meritocracy model. >> We have wanted to make the project open source and encourage contributors >> from multiple organizations from the start. We plan to provide plenty >> of support to new developers and to quickly recruit those who make solid >> contributions to committer status. >> >> == Community == >> >> Mesos is currently being used by developers at Twitter and researchers in >> computer science and civil engineering at Berkeley. We hope to extend the >> user >> and developer base further in the future. The current developers and users >> are all interested in building a solid open source community around Mesos. >> >> To work towards an open source community, we have been using the GitHub issue >> tracker and mailing lists at Berkeley for development discussions within our >> group for several months now. >> >> == Core Developers == >> >> Mesos was started by three graduate students at UC Berkeley (Benjamin >> Hindman, >> Andy Konwinski and Matei Zaharia), who were soon joined by a postdoc from >> the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (Ali Ghodsi). Although started as >> a research project, Mesos was always intended to solve operational issues >> with large clusters and to become an open-source project, building on our >> successful experience doing research that has been incorporated into Apache >> Hadoop >> (several scheduling algorithms). >> >> == Alignment == >> >> The ASF is a natural host for Mesos given that it is already the home of >> Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, and other emerging cloud software projects. >> Mesos was designed to support Hadoop from the beginning in order to solve >> operational challenges in Hadoop clusters, and it aims to support a wide >> range >> of applications beyond Hadoop as well. Mesos complements the existing Apache >> cloud computing projects by providing a unified way to manage these systems >> and to share resources and data between them. >> >> >> >> = Known Risks = >> >> == Orphaned Products == >> >> With the current core developers of Mesos being graduate students, there >> is a risk that these developers will eventually move on to other projects. >> However, because of the broad scope of Mesos, we all plan to continue working >> on projects related to it in the next several years. We are also actively >> working with developers at other organizations, such as Twitter, who are >> good candidates to become contributors. >> >> == Inexperience with Open Source == >> >> All of the core developers are active users and followers of open source. >> Matei Zaharia is a Hadoop committer and has experience with the Apache >> infrastructure and development process. Andy Konwinski has contributed >> patches to Hadoop through the Apache infrastructure as well. Ali Ghodsi >> has released open source software as part of his PhD work that was adopted >> by a Swedish company. >> >> == Homogeneous Developers == >> >> The current core developers are all researchers (graduate students and a >> young professor). However, we hope to establish a developer community >> that includes contributors from several corporations, and we are already >> working towards this with Twitter and Facebook. >> >> == Reliance on Salaried Developers == >> >> Given that the project started in an academic research environment, the >> core developers are all interested in it primarily for its own sake rather >> than for the sake of employment. We all intend to continue working on Mesos >> as volunteers. >> >> == Relationships with Other Apache Products == >> >> Mesos needs to work well with Hadoop, HBase, and other cloud software >> projects. Being hosted on the same infrastructure will facilitate this >> and ultimately help out both Mesos and the projects that can now be >> managed using it. There is, however, a risk that new projects will be built >> to run solely on Mesos, introducing a dependency. >> >> == An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand == >> >> While we respect the reputation of the Apache brand and have no doubts that >> it will attract contributors and users, our interest is primarily to give >> Mesos a solid home as an open source project following an established >> development model. Locating the project in Apache will also facilitate >> collaboration with Hadoop, HBase, and other Apache cluster computing >> projects, >> as discussed in the Alignment section. >> >> >> >> = Documentation = >> >> Information about Mesos can be found at http://mesos.berkeley.edu. >> The following sources may be useful to start with: >> >> * Documentation for GitHub release: http://github.com/mesos/mesos/wiki >> * Presentation at Hadoop User Group: >> http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~matei/talks/2010/hug_mesos.pdf >> * Tech report on system design and current features: >> http://mesos.berkeley.edu/mesos_tech_report.pdf (paper to appear at NSDI >> 2011 conference) >> >> >> >> = Initial Source = >> >> Mesos has been under development since spring 2009 by a team of graduate >> students and researchers. It is currently hosted on GitHub under a BSD >> license at http://github.com/mesos/mesos. >> >> >> >> = External Dependencies = >> >> The dependencies all have Apache compatible licenses, including BSD, MIT, >> Boost, and Apache 2.0. >> >> >> >> = Cryptography = >> >> Not applicable. >> >> >> >> = Required Resources = >> >> == Mailing Lists == >> >> * mesos-private for private PMC discussions (with moderated subscriptions) >> * mesos-dev >> * mesos-commits >> * mesos-user >> >> >> >> == Subversion Directory == >> >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/mesos >> >> >> >> == Issue Tracking == >> >> JIRA Mesos (MESOS) >> >> >> >> == Other Resources == >> >> The existing code already has unit tests, so we would like a Hudson instance >> to run them whenever a new patch is submitted. This can be added after >> project >> creation. >> >> >> >> = Initial Committers = >> >> * Ali Ghodsi (ali at sics dot se) >> * Benjamin Hindman (benh at eecs dot berkeley dot edu) >> * Andy Konwinski (andyk at eecs dot berkeley dot edu) >> * Matei Zaharia (matei at apache dot org) >> >> A CLA is already on file for Matei Zaharia. >> >> >> = Affiliations = >> >> * Ali Ghodsi (UC Berkeley / Swedish Institute of Computer Science) >> * Benjamin Hindman (UC Berkeley) >> * Andy Konwinski (UC Berkeley) >> * Matei Zaharia (UC Berkeley) >> >> >> >> = Sponsors = >> >> == Champion == >> >> Tom White >> >> == Nominated Mentors == >> >> * Dhruba Borthakur >> * Brian McCallister >> * Tom White >> >> == Sponsoring Entity == >> >> Incubator PMC >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
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