Tomorrow I will work more on the scaling issues!
We had a great Myria meeting this afternoon. We discussed Andrew Whitaker‘s user-defined aggregate (UDA) extensions to MyriaL, which provide a very nice way to get scalable, distributed partial aggregation to implement many complicated aggregations in a single scan rather ...
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Today I met with UW CSE undergrad York Wei and Brandon Myers for demos and code review of York’s summer Project. York and Brandon have adapted our Myria Web frontend to extend the current support for Myria with the ability to issue queries to two new backends:
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The big news today is that Myria now has support for user-defined aggregations. I’m excited that we can soon put this new feature to work and asymptotically speedup Sandra’s citation graph analysis work, which is currently throttled by memory pressure.
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We had our monthly SeaFlow/eScience group meeting meeting. For this grant the oceanographers have been doing lots of new science using tools like SQLShare, Myria, and popcycle, our software for storing indexing and analyzing SeaFlow data. We discussed needed improvements to popcycle and to the seaflow-viz web dashboard (see ...
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