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Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing

2010

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Using Hadoop And Cassandra For Taxi Data Analytics: A Feasibility Study, Alvin Jun Yong Koh, Xuan Khoa Nguyen, C. Jason Woodard Jun 2010

Using Hadoop And Cassandra For Taxi Data Analytics: A Feasibility Study, Alvin Jun Yong Koh, Xuan Khoa Nguyen, C. Jason Woodard

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper reports on a preliminary study to assess the feasibility of using the Open Cirrus Cloud Computing Research testbed to provide offline and online analytical support for taxi fleet operations. In the study, we benchmarked the performance gains from distributing the offline analysis of GPS location traces over multiple virtual machines using the Apache Hadoop implementation of the MapReduce paradigm. We also explored the use of the Apache Cassandra distributed database system for online retrieval of vehicle trace data. While configuring the testbed infrastructure was straightforward, we encountered severe I/O bottlenecks in running the benchmarks due to the lack …


Symphony: A Platform For Search-Driven Applications, John C. Shafer, Rakesh Agrawal, Hady W. Lauw Mar 2010

Symphony: A Platform For Search-Driven Applications, John C. Shafer, Rakesh Agrawal, Hady W. Lauw

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We present the design of Symphony, a platform that enables non-developers to build and deploy a new class of search-driven applications that combine their data and domain expertise with content from search engines and other web services. The Symphony prototype has been built on top of Microsoft's Bing infrastructure. While Symphony naturally makes use of the customization capabilities exposed by Bing, its distinguishing feature is the capability it provides to the application creator to combine their proprietary data and domain expertise with content obtained from Bing. They can also integrate specialized data obtained from web services to enhance the richness …