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General Parallel Execution Model for Large Matrix Workloads

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Large scale statistical computing is crucial for extracting useful information from huge amount of data for both large companies and research scientists. The Solutions developed by high-performance communities have been more limited to clusters or high-end machines for decades. The cost of maintaining such dedicated clusters are prohibiting, people start to look at cloud computing where we can rent a cluster by time and pay-as-we-go. In a cloud setting, system features including fault tolerance and scalability become important. In this paper, we proposed a simple and universal parallel execution model for large matrix workloads. We implement the model in Hadoop MapReduce framework using map-only jobs. Because of the superiority of the model, experiments show that our Hadoop-based execution engine can reduce the execution time of matrix multiplication by half comparing with previous works.

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Our research was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No: 61462037 and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi under grant No: 20142BAB217014.

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Deng, S., Xu, X., Zhou, F., Weng, H., Luo, W. (2020). General Parallel Execution Model for Large Matrix Workloads. In: Liu, Q., Mısır, M., Wang, X., Liu, W. (eds) The 8th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks (CENet2018). CENet2018 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 905. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14680-1_3

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