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Corona, REEF provides a centralized control plane abstraction that can be used 
to build a decentralized data plane for supporting big data systems. Special 
consideration is given to graph computation and machine learning applications, 
both of which require data <i>retention</i> on allocated resources to execute 
multiple passes over the data.</p>
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variety of data-processing tasks e.g., data shuffle, group communication, 
aggregation, checkpointing, and many more. Rather than reimplement these for 
each application, REEF aims to provide them in a library form, so that they can 
be reused by higher-level applications and tuned for a specific domain problem 
e.g., Machine Learning.</p>
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href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/REEF/Coding+Guidelines";  
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+            <!-- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
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+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
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+software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations
+under the License. --><h1>Apache REEF</h1>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h3>What is REEF?<a name="What_is_REEF"></a></h3>
+<p><b>REEF</b>, the Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework, is our approach 
to simplify and unify the lower layers of big data systems on modern resource 
managers.</p>
+<p>For managers like Apache YARN, Apache Mesos, Google Omega, and Facebook 
Corona, REEF provides a centralized control plane abstraction that can be used 
to build a decentralized data plane for supporting big data systems. Special 
consideration is given to graph computation and machine learning applications, 
both of which require data <i>retention</i> on allocated resources to execute 
multiple passes over the data.</p>
+<p>More broadly, applications that run on YARN will have the need for a 
variety of data-processing tasks e.g., data shuffle, group communication, 
aggregation, checkpointing, and many more. Rather than reimplement these for 
each application, REEF aims to provide them in a library form, so that they can 
be reused by higher-level applications and tuned for a specific domain problem 
e.g., Machine Learning.</p>
+<p>In that sense, our long-term vision is that REEF will mature into a Big 
Data Application Server, that will host a variety of tool kits and 
applications, on modern resource managers.</p>
+
+    
+        <img src="REEFDiagram.png" alt="" />
+    </img>
+</div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3>How can I get started?<a name="How_can_I_get_started"></a></h3>
+<p>The official home for the REEF (and Tang and Wake) source code is at the 
Apache Software Foundation. You can check out the current code via:</p>
+
+<div class="source"><pre class="prettyprint">$ git clone 
git://git.apache.org/incubator-reef.git
+</pre></div>
+<p>or directly access its GitHub page <a class="externalLink" 
href="https://github.com/apache/incubator-reef";>here</a>.</p>
+<p>Detailed information about REEF and using it can be found in the <a 
href="faq.html">FAQ</a> and the <a class="externalLink" 
href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/REEF/Tutorials";>Tutorial</a>.</p>
+<p>If you wish to contribute, start at the <a class="externalLink" 
href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/REEF/Contributing";>Contributing</a>
 tutorial or the <a class="externalLink" 
href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/REEF/Committer+Guide";>Committer
 Guide</a>!</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3>Further questions?<a name="Further_questions"></a></h3>
+<p>Please visit our <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked Questions</a> page or 
use our <a href="mailing-list.html">Mailing List</a> to send us a 
question!</p></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h3>Disclaimer<a name="Disclaimer"></a></h3>
+<p>Apache REEF is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software 
Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator. Incubation is required of 
all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the 
infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in 
a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status 
is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, 
it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the 
ASF.</p></div></div>
+                  </div>
+            </div>
+          </div>
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+  </div>
+</div>
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+<div class="row span12">Apache REEF, REEF, Apache, the Apache feather logo, 
and the Apache REEF logo are trademarks
+                       of The Apache Software Foundation. All other marks 
mentioned may be trademarks or registered
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-<p>It is instructive to first remind us of how MapReduce works: Hadoop 
Map-Reduce schedules compute tasks on containers for executing map and reduce 
functions on record data. The basic structure of a Map-Reduce job is as 
follows. For each input block, schedule a map task that passes each internal 
record to a user-defined map function and materializes the output in key-sorted 
order. Further, assign a user-defined number of reduce tasks to non-overlapping 
portions of the key-space from the map output, then shuffle it across the 
network to where the respective reduce task is scheduled. For each reduce task, 
perform a global key-based sort on the shuffled data, group it by key and call 
the reduce function on each record group; storing the output in a durable 
fashion (i.e., HDFS).</p>
-<p>From the perspective of the scheduler, a number of issues arise that must 
be appropriately handled in order to scale-out to massive datasets. First, each 
map task should be scheduled close to where the input block resides; ideally on 
the same machine or rack. Second, failures can occur at the task level at any 
step; requiring backup tasks to be scheduled or the job being aborted. Third, 
performance bottlenecks can cause an imbalance in the task-level progress. The 
scheduler must react to these stragglers by scheduling clones and incorporating 
the logical task that crosses the finish line first.</p>
-<p>Anyone of these issues can limit the scale-out degree of a Map-Reduce job. 
In what follows, we perscribe a scheduler framework that provides task 
life-cycle management mechanisms. Using this framework, we developed a complete 
version of the Map-Reduce runtime that addresses the above issues. Our 
framework is designed around three components.</p>
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-<li><tt>Evaluator</tt>: provides a runtime environment on a container.</li>
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an Evaluator.</li>
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-<p>Below, we describe the client facing interfaces to these components. The 
core REEF control flow design is based on the reactive extensions (Rx), which 
enforce asynchronous message-passing method signatures. In Rx terms, interfaces 
are based on an observer pattern, which expose methods that accept messages 
from a (possibly remote) asynchronous caller.</p>
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<tt>RunningTask</tt></i></p>
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-<p>The above figure presents the REEF components in terms of a running 
application, which is written in terms of a <tt>Driver</tt> and task-specific 
<tt>Task</tt> modules. The application code is packaged and submitted to a REEF 
client API, which in turn submits a REEF-AM configuration to YARN. The REEF-AM 
contains a runtime for launching the <tt>Driver</tt> and client libraries for 
requesting Evaluators and launching <tt>Activities</tt>. When a request for 
<tt>Evaluators</tt> is made, the REEF-AM negotiates containers with the YARN-RM 
and launches an <tt>Evaluator</tt> runtime on the YARN-NM that hosts the 
allocated container. In turn, the <tt>Driver</tt> is given an 
<tt>Evaluator</tt> object reference, which it uses to submit an <tt>Task</tt>. 
The <tt>Driver</tt> is also given a <tt>Task</tt> object reference, which it 
may use to send messages to the <tt>Task</tt> running in the 
<tt>Evaluator</tt>. The REEF layer implements these communication channels and 
encodes the computationa
 l life-cycle as state transitions, which are surfaced to the <tt>Driver</tt> 
in the form of Rx messages.</p>
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-<h3>Computational Life-Cycle<a name="Computational_Life-Cycle"></a></h3>
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-<p><i>States of <tt>Evaluator</tt>, <tt>Contexts</tt>, and 
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-<p>The Figure above describes the state transitions for (a) <tt>Evaluator</tt> 
and <tt>Context</tt> and (b) <tt>Task</tt> components. Each state transition is 
associated with an object reference that is surfaced to the <tt>Driver</tt> in 
an Rx-style interface. For instance, when the YARN-RM notifies the REEF-AM of 
an allocated container, the <tt>Driver</tt> is given an 
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configurations (i.e., for data services, see below) and file resources, and 
submit methods that bootstraps the <tt>Evaluator</tt> runtime on the YARN-NM. 
When an <tt>Evaluator</tt> bootstrap successfully completes, the 
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launch <tt>Activities</tt> or to initiate a close, which triggers a shutdown 
event at the <tt>Evaluator</tt> runtime and a subsequent container release at 
the YARN-RM. If at any point a failure occurs, the <tt>Driver</tt> is passed a 
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 bject; containing an exception trace when possible.</p>
-<p>Recall that the <tt>Driver</tt> launches a <tt>Task</tt> on a submit method 
call from the <tt>ActiveContext</tt> reference. This state transition is 
denoted in the Figure above by the edge labeled submit; spanning the two state 
machines. The REEF-AM passes a <tt>RunningActivity</tt> object to the 
<tt>Driver</tt> after receiving confirmation of a successful <tt>Task</tt> 
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-<p>A <tt>Task</tt> encapsulates the task work of a job. The client interface 
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+<p>It is instructive to first remind us of how MapReduce works: Hadoop 
Map-Reduce schedules compute tasks on containers for executing map and reduce 
functions on record data. The basic structure of a Map-Reduce job is as 
follows. For each input block, schedule a map task that passes each internal 
record to a user-defined map function and materializes the output in key-sorted 
order. Further, assign a user-defined number of reduce tasks to non-overlapping 
portions of the key-space from the map output, then shuffle it across the 
network to where the respective reduce task is scheduled. For each reduce task, 
perform a global key-based sort on the shuffled data, group it by key and call 
the reduce function on each record group; storing the output in a durable 
fashion (i.e., HDFS).</p>
+<p>From the perspective of the scheduler, a number of issues arise that must 
be appropriately handled in order to scale-out to massive datasets. First, each 
map task should be scheduled close to where the input block resides; ideally on 
the same machine or rack. Second, failures can occur at the task level at any 
step; requiring backup tasks to be scheduled or the job being aborted. Third, 
performance bottlenecks can cause an imbalance in the task-level progress. The 
scheduler must react to these stragglers by scheduling clones and incorporating 
the logical task that crosses the finish line first.</p>
+<p>Anyone of these issues can limit the scale-out degree of a Map-Reduce job. 
In what follows, we perscribe a scheduler framework that provides task 
life-cycle management mechanisms. Using this framework, we developed a complete 
version of the Map-Reduce runtime that addresses the above issues. Our 
framework is designed around three components.</p>
+
+<ol style="list-style-type: decimal">
+  
+<li><tt>Driver</tt>: captures the client code embodying the scheduler</li>
+  
+<li><tt>Evaluator</tt>: provides a runtime environment on a container.</li>
+  
+<li><tt>Task</tt>: encapsulates the task-level client code to be executed in 
an Evaluator.</li>
+</ol>
+<p>Below, we describe the client facing interfaces to these components. The 
core REEF control flow design is based on the reactive extensions (Rx), which 
enforce asynchronous message-passing method signatures. In Rx terms, interfaces 
are based on an observer pattern, which expose methods that accept messages 
from a (possibly remote) asynchronous caller.</p>
+<p><br /></br></p>
+
+      <img src="reef-architecture.png" alt="" /></img>
+
+<p><i>A running REEF job with two <tt>RunningEvaluators</tt> and one 
<tt>RunningTask</tt></i></p>
+<p><br /></br></p>
+<p>The above figure presents the REEF components in terms of a running 
application, which is written in terms of a <tt>Driver</tt> and task-specific 
<tt>Task</tt> modules. The application code is packaged and submitted to a REEF 
client API, which in turn submits a REEF-AM configuration to YARN. The REEF-AM 
contains a runtime for launching the <tt>Driver</tt> and client libraries for 
requesting <tt>Evaluators</tt> and launching <tt>Tasks</tt>. When a request for 
<tt>Evaluators</tt> is made, the REEF-AM negotiates containers with the YARN-RM 
and launches an <tt>Evaluator</tt> runtime on the YARN-NM that hosts the 
allocated container. In turn, the <tt>Driver</tt> is given an 
<tt>Evaluator</tt> object reference, which it uses to submit an <tt>Task</tt>. 
The <tt>Driver</tt> is also given a <tt>Task</tt> object reference, which it 
may use to send messages to the <tt>Task</tt> running in the 
<tt>Evaluator</tt>. The REEF layer implements these communication channels and 
encodes the computat
 ional life-cycle as state transitions, which are surfaced to the 
<tt>Driver</tt> in the form of Rx messages.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="section">
+<h3>Computational Life-Cycle<a name="Computational_Life-Cycle"></a></h3>
+<p><br /></br></p>
+
+      <img src="states-horizontal.png" alt="" /></img>
+
+<p><i>States of <tt>Evaluator</tt>, <tt>Contexts</tt>, and 
<tt>Tasks</tt></i></p>
+<p><br /></br></p>
+<p>The Figure above describes the state transitions for (a) <tt>Evaluator</tt> 
and <tt>Context</tt> and (b) <tt>Task</tt> components. Each state transition is 
associated with an object reference that is surfaced to the <tt>Driver</tt> in 
an Rx-style interface. For instance, when the YARN-RM notifies the REEF-AM of 
an allocated container, the <tt>Driver</tt> is given an 
<tt>AllocatedEvaluator</tt> object; containing methods for adding 
configurations (i.e., for data services, see below) and file resources, and 
submit methods that bootstraps the <tt>Evaluator</tt> runtime on the YARN-NM. 
When an <tt>Evaluator</tt> bootstrap successfully completes, the 
<tt>Driver</tt> is given an <tt>ActiveContext</tt> object, which can be used to 
launch <tt>Tasks</tt> or to initiate a close, which triggers a shutdown event 
at the <tt>Evaluator</tt> runtime and a subsequent container release at the 
YARN-RM. If at any point a failure occurs, the <tt>Driver</tt> is passed a 
<tt>FailedEvaluator</tt> object
 ; containing an exception trace when possible.</p>
+<p>Recall that the <tt>Driver</tt> launches a <tt>Task</tt> on a submit method 
call from the <tt>ActiveContext</tt> reference. This state transition is 
denoted in the Figure above by the edge labeled submit; spanning the two state 
machines. The REEF-AM passes a <tt>RunningTask</tt> object to the 
<tt>Driver</tt> after receiving confirmation of a successful <tt>Task</tt> 
start or resume. The <tt>Driver</tt> may use the <tt>RunningTask</tt> reference 
to close or suspend the execution; triggering a <tt>CompletedTask</tt> or 
<tt>SuspendedTask</tt> object reference to the <tt>Driver</tt>. The 
<tt>SuspendedTask</tt> object contains a memento used to resume the execution 
on some (possibly alternative) <tt>ActiveContext</tt>. Exceptions during the 
<tt>Task</tt> execution are surfaced to the <tt>Driver</tt> in the form of a 
<tt>FailedTask</tt>, which contains the actual exception object.</p></div>
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+<h3>Task Component<a name="Task_Component"></a></h3>
+<p>A <tt>Task</tt> encapsulates the task work of a job. The client interface 
contains a single synchronous call method that takes an optional memento 
argument and returns a byte array, which will be packaged with the 
<tt>CompletedTask</tt> object surfaced to the <tt>Driver</tt>. An exception may 
be thrown at any point during the call method; returning control back to the 
<tt>Evaluator</tt>, which packages the exception and sends it to the 
<tt>Driver</tt> where it is surfaced as a <tt>FailedTask</tt>. The 
<tt>Evaluator</tt> periodically performs a heartbeat with the REEF-AM to convey 
its status information. A <tt>Task</tt> can optionally implement a method 
interface that, when called, returns a (bounded) byte array, which the 
<tt>Evaluator</tt> includes in its heartbeat to the REEF-AM and surfaced to the 
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