[jira] [Commented] (HAMA-546) Add access to remote memory

["praveen sripati (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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praveen sripati commented on HAMA-546:
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There is a section on DRMA (Direct Remote Memory Access) in (1) - page 8. Not sure if Hama tries to mimic API similar to BSPLib, but it would make Hama adoption smooth.

(1) - http://cloudscale.com/images/bsp/BSPLIBPC.PDF
                
> Add access to remote memory
> ---------------------------
>
>                 Key: HAMA-546
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HAMA-546
>             Project: Hama
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: bsp core
>            Reporter: Thomas Jungblut
>            Assignee: Thomas Jungblut
>
> bsp_get and bsp_put are integral parts of the BSP computing model.
> They are defined as follows:
> bsp_get [1]
> {quote}
>      The bsp_get(3) and bsp_hpget(3) operations  reach  into  the
>      local   memory   of  another  process  and  copy  previously
>      registered remote data held there into a data  structure  in
>      the local memory of the process that initiated them.
> {quote}
> bsp_put [2]
> {quote}
>      The aim of bsp_put(3) and  bsp_hpput(3)  is  to  provide  an
>      operation  akin  memcpy(3C) available in the Unix <string.h>
>      library.  Both operations copy a specified number of  bytes,
>      from  a byte addressed data structure in the local memory of
>      one process into contiguous memory locations  in  the  local
>      memory of another process. The distinguishing factor between
>      these operations is provided by the buffering choice.
> {quote}
> A very simple implementation can be based on a HashMap on every peer which can be obtained via RPC. 
> In this case we need to extend the MessageManager to be able to do off-the-band communication.
> It would be great to extract a common interface which can be inter-operable with other caching tools like DirectMemory or EHCache. 
> [1] http://www.bsp-worldwide.org/implmnts/oxtool/man/bsp_get.3.html
> [2] http://www.bsp-worldwide.org/implmnts/oxtool/man/bsp_put.3.html

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