[ANNOUNCE] Twister4Azure-0.9 Release Candidate 1

[Thilina Gunarathne]

Dear all,

I'm happy to announce that Twister4Azure is now available at http://twister4azure.codeplex.com/ as an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0. The release candidate for Twister4Azure 0.9 release is available at http://twister4azure.codeplex.com/releases/view/92132. 

Attached below are the release notes for the new release. This release adds direct TCP data transfer, communication primitives, optimized broadcasting and several other features.  You can check out the documentation for this release at http://twister4azure.codeplex.com/documentation.

Hope you'll enjoy the new release of Twister4Azure. We look forward to hearing your comments and suggestion.

thanks,

Thilina

Twister4Azure-0.9 Release Candidate 1

Twister4Azure is a distributed decentralized iterative MapReduce runtime for Windows Azure Cloud that was developed utilizing Azure cloud infrastructure services. Twister4Azure extends MapReduce paradigm by introducing extensions and optimizations for iterative MapReduce applications. Twister4Azure supports caching of loop-invarient data, adds a new merge step (map->reduce->merge) to the programming model and introduces a novel cache-aware task scheduling mechanism. Twister4Azure running in Azure cloud outperforms Hadoop in a local bare-metal cluster by 2 to 4 times.

Authors: Thilina Gunarathne, Tak-Lon Wu, Judy Qiu, Geoffrey Fox
School of Informatics and Computing / Pervasive Technology Institute
Indiana University, Bloomington.
{tgunarat, taklwu, xqiu,gcf}@indiana.edu

User and development Guides

1. Quick Start - MapReduce: Running WordCount Sample http://twister4azure.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Quick%20Start%20-%20MapReduce
2. Quick Start - Iterative MapReduce - Running KMeansClustering Samplehttp://twister4azure.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Quick%20Start%20Guide
3. Twister4Azure Application Development Guide http://twister4azure.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=User%20Guide
4. FAQ http://twister4azure.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=FAQ

Samples

This release contains the WordCount traditional MapReduce sample and the KMeansClustering iterative MapReduce sample. More untested samples compatible with this release are available in the default branch of the source control repository.

Support

• Please use the Twister4Azure Google group(http://groups.google.com/group/twister4azure) or the dicussion board (http://twister4azure.codeplex.com/discussions) for your questions or comments.
• Please use the Twister4Azure issue tracker (http://twister4azure.codeplex.com/workitem/list/basic) to report any issues.

Disclaimer of Warranty

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, Licensor provides the Work (and each Contributor provides its Contributions) on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied, including, without limitation, any warranties or conditions of TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You are solely responsible for determining the appropriateness of using or redistributing the Work and assume any risks associated with Your exercise of permissions under this License. 

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