Thanks for the response Krishna. I was wondering if it were possible for using MR to solve you problem instead of building the whole stack on top of yarn. Most likely its not possible , thats why you are building it . I wanted to know why is that ?
I am in just trying to find out the need or why we might need to write the application on yarn. Rahul On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Krishna Kishore Bonagiri < write2kish...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Rahul, > > I am porting a distributed application that runs on a fixed set of given > resources to YARN, with the aim of being able to run it on a dynamically > selected resources whichever are available at the time of running the > application. > > Thanks, > Kishore > > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Rahul Bhattacharjee < > rahul.rec....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I was going through the motivation behind Yarn. Splitting the >> responsibility of JT is the major concern.Ultimately the base (Yarn) was >> built in a generic way for building other generic distributed applications >> too. >> >> I am not able to think of any other parallel processing use case that >> would be useful to built on top of YARN. I though of a lot of use cases >> that would be beneficial when run in parallel , but again ,we can do those >> using map only jobs in MR. >> >> Can someone tell me a scenario , where a application can utilize Yarn >> features or can be built on top of YARN and at the same time , it cannot be >> done efficiently using MRv2 jobs. >> >> thanks, >> Rahul >> >> >> >
