Hi Saliya, yes that is possible, however the requirements for reading a binary file from local fs are basically the same as for reading it from HDSF. In order to be able to start reading different sections of a file in parallel, you need to know the different starting positions. This can be done by either having fixed offsets for blocks or adding some meta information for the block start positions. InputFormats can divide the work of reading a file by generating multiple input splits. Each input split defines the file, the start offset and the length to read.
However, are you sure that reading a file in parallel will be faster than reading it sequentially? At least for HDDs, IO-bound workloads with "random" reading patterns are usually much slower than sequential reads. Cheers, Fabian 2016-01-24 19:10 GMT+01:00 Suneel Marthi <suneel.mar...@gmail.com>: > There should be a env.readbinaryfile() IIRC, check that > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 24, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Saliya Ekanayake <esal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you for the response on this, but I still have some doubt. Simply, > the files is not in HDFS, it's in local storage. In Flink if I run the > program with, say 5 parallel tasks, what I would like to do is to read a > block of rows in each task as shown below. I looked at the simple CSV > reader and was thinking to create a custom one like that, but I would need > to know the task number to read the relevant block. Is this possible? > > <image.png> > > Thank you, > Saliya > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> > wrote: > >> With readHadoopFile you can use all of Hadoop’s FileInputFormats and >> thus you can also do everything with Flink, what you can do with Hadoop. >> Simply take the same Hadoop FileInputFormat which you would take for >> your MapReduce job. >> >> Cheers, >> Till >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Saliya Ekanayake <esal...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Thank you, I saw the readHadoopFile, but I was not sure how it can be >>> used to the following, which is what I need. The logic of the code requires >>> an entire row to operate on, so in our current implementation with P tasks, >>> each of them will read a rectangular block of (N/P) x N from the matrix. Is >>> this possible with readHadoopFile? Also, the file may not be in hdfs, so is >>> it possible to refer to local disk in doing this? >>> >>> Thank you >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 1:31 AM, Chiwan Park <chiwanp...@apache.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Saliya, >>>> >>>> You can use the input format from Hadoop in Flink by using >>>> readHadoopFile method. The method returns a dataset which of type is >>>> Tuple2<Key, Value>. Note that MapReduce equivalent transformation in Flink >>>> is composed of map, groupBy, and reduceGroup. >>>> >>>> > On Jan 20, 2016, at 3:04 PM, Suneel Marthi <smar...@apache.org> >>>> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > Guess u r looking for Flink's BinaryInputFormat to be able to read >>>> blocks of data from HDFS >>>> > >>>> > >>>> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-0.10/api/java/org/apache/flink/api/common/io/BinaryInputFormat.html >>>> > >>>> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:45 AM, Saliya Ekanayake <esal...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> > Hi, >>>> > >>>> > I am trying to use Flink perform a parallel batch operation on a NxN >>>> matrix represented as a binary file. Each (i,j) element is stored as a Java >>>> Short value. In a typical MapReduce programming with Hadoop, each map task >>>> will read a block of rows of this matrix and perform computation on that >>>> block and emit result to the reducer. >>>> > >>>> > How is this done in Flink? I am new to Flink and couldn't find a >>>> binary reader so far. Any help is greatly appreciated. >>>> > >>>> > Thank you, >>>> > Saliya >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > Saliya Ekanayake >>>> > Ph.D. Candidate | Research Assistant >>>> > School of Informatics and Computing | Digital Science Center >>>> > Indiana University, Bloomington >>>> > Cell 812-391-4914 >>>> > http://saliya.org >>>> > >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Chiwan Park >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Saliya Ekanayake >>> Ph.D. Candidate | Research Assistant >>> School of Informatics and Computing | Digital Science Center >>> Indiana University, Bloomington >>> Cell 812-391-4914 >>> http://saliya.org >>> >> >> > > > -- > Saliya Ekanayake > Ph.D. Candidate | Research Assistant > School of Informatics and Computing | Digital Science Center > Indiana University, Bloomington > Cell 812-391-4914 > http://saliya.org > >
