Hello Mr. Yoon, I was delighted to hear of your proposed Hamburg project. I am a new user of Hadoop (and Hbase). It looks like that I will be spending a substantial amount of time working in this environment over the next couple years, for both DOE bioinformatics work (my primary field) and for work funded by DoD. I am enthusiastic about using Hadoop, Hive, Hbase. Also am quite interested in the Mahout project.
While I cannot offer advice as to where to place your new project within the Apache framework, I did want to offer my support. I believe that it could well be of value in the coming years both to me, for my bioinformatics research, and to other researchers here at PNNL working in the areas of social networks (in our national security directorate) and in a set of projects directed toward making the electrical grid "smarter". I would not be able to contribute any code until I found funding from current or new projects for my time. But if Hamburg moves forward and can demonstrate its usefulness, that might be a real possibility. And in regards to funding for getting you some help: if you can find a collaborator based at a university or non-profit, said collaborator could well apply for a grant from the US National Science Foundation for open source Hadoop-based development of graph computing / mining algorithms. The NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate is awarding grants specifically devoted to the area of graph mining (at least this year - hopefully will continue next year - anyway, NSF gives money for algorithm and tool development in general - friendly to that). I can't apply (at least not directly) - NSF does not like to give money to other US government labs. But I would think you could find someone in academia - perhaps someone already working with the Mahout group. It would appear a natural fit. I presume there are a number of people associated with the Apache org who know something about the NSF and could offer further advice in that direction. I look forward to hearing more about Hamburg, as it progresses. Best, Ron Taylor ___________________________________________ Ronald Taylor, Ph.D. Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Group Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 902 Battelle Boulevard P.O. Box 999, MSIN K7-90 Richland, WA 99352 USA Office: 509-372-6568 Email: ronald.tay...@pnl.gov www.pnl.gov -----Original Message----- From: edw...@udanax.org [mailto:edw...@udanax.org] On Behalf Of Edward J. Yoon Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 7:27 PM To: general@hadoop.apache.org; hama-...@incubator.apache.org; hamburg-...@googlegroups.com Cc: Paolo Castagna Subject: Discussion about Hamburg (provisional name) open sourcing Hello communities, I'm the one of the Hamburg (provisional name), which is the graph computing framework on Hadoop sponsor. Now we're working on the perfection of our prototype project, and we'll propose the Hamburg project soon. - http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hamburg, a wiki page - http://throb.googlecode.com/, a prototype project BTW, before we decide to propose, we need time just to consider where it belongs to. Since it aims to create a "general graph computing framework" on Hadoop, I'd like to propose it as a sub-project of Hadoop. On the other hand, since the matrix and graph are both in the domain of scientific computing and BSP model could be used for matrix computation areas, I think this project also can be integrated with the Hama project. WDYT? Any advices are welcome. -- Best Regards, Edward J. Yoon @ NHN, corp. edwardy...@apache.org http://blog.udanax.org
