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Guide to High Performance Distributed Computing

Case Studies with Hadoop, Scalding and Spark

  • Provides a guide to the distributed computing technologies of Hadoop and Spark, from the perspective of industry practitioners
  • Supports the theory with case studies taken from a range of disciplines, including data mining, machine learning, graph processing and image processing
  • Supplies working source code to aid understanding through step-by-step implementation
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Computer Communications and Networks (CCN)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Programming Fundamentals of High Performance Distributed Computing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction

      • K. G. Srinivasa, Anil Kumar Muppalla
      Pages 3-31
    3. Getting Started with Hadoop

      • K. G. Srinivasa, Anil Kumar Muppalla
      Pages 33-72
    4. Getting Started with Spark

      • K. G. Srinivasa, Anil Kumar Muppalla
      Pages 73-99
    5. Programming Internals of Scalding and Spark

      • K.G. Srinivasa, Anil Kumar Muppalla
      Pages 101-154
  3. Case Studies Using Hadoop, Scalding and Spark

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
    2. Case Study I: Data Clustering using Scalding and Spark

      • K G Srinivasa, Anil Kumar Muppalla
      Pages 157-183
    3. Case Study II: Data Classification using Scalding and Spark

      • K G Srinivasa, Anil Kumar Muppalla
      Pages 185-217
    4. Case Study III: Regression Analysis using Scalding and Spark

      • K G Srinivasa, Anil Kumar Muppalla
      Pages 219-259
    5. Case Study IV: Recommender System Using Scalding and Spark

      • K. G. Srinivasa, Anil Kumar Muppalla
      Pages 261-301
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 303-304

About this book

This timely text/reference describes the development and implementation of large-scale distributed processing systems using open source tools and technologies. Comprehensive in scope, the book presents state-of-the-art material on building high performance distributed computing systems, providing practical guidance and best practices as well as describing theoretical software frameworks. Features: describes the fundamentals of building scalable software systems for large-scale data processing in the new paradigm of high performance distributed computing; presents an overview of the Hadoop ecosystem, followed by step-by-step instruction on its installation, programming and execution; Reviews the basics of Spark, including resilient distributed datasets, and examines Hadoop streaming and working with Scalding; Provides detailed case studies on approaches to clustering, data classification and regression analysis; Explains the process of creating a working recommender system using Scalding and Spark.

Authors and Affiliations

  • M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India

    K.G. Srinivasa, Anil Kumar Muppalla

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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