2022/12/28 by Kaiying Shan, Niranda Perera, Shan, Kaiying +15 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Cloud Computing and Resource Management #Distributed #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Parallel #Scientific Computing and Data Management #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2212.13732
openalex publication_date 2022/12/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Data pre-processing is a fundamental component in any data-driven application. With the increasing complexity of data processing operations and volume of data, Cylon, a distributed dataframe system, is developed to facilitate data processing both as a standalone application and as a library, especially for Python applications. While Cylon shows promising performance results, we experienced difficulties trying to integrate with frameworks incompatible with the traditional Message Passing Interface (MPI). While MPI implementations encompass scalable and efficient communication routines, their process launching mechanisms work well with mainstream HPC systems but are incompatible with some environments that adopt their own resource management systems. In this work, we alleviated this issue by directly integrating the Unified Communication X (UCX) framework, which supports a variety of classic HPC and non-HPC process-bootstrapping mechanisms as our communication framework. While we experimented with our methodology on Cylon, the same technique can be used to bring MPI communication to other applications that do not employ MPI's built-in process management approach.