SNU Professor Chun Byung-Gon Research Team’s “Nemo” Gets Approved by Apache Software Foundation (ASF) as Open Source Incubator Project
Uploaded by
관리자
Upload Date
2018.04.24
Views
768
SNU Professor Chun Byung-Gon Research Team’s “Nemo” Gets Approved by Apache Software Foundation (ASF) as Open Source Incubator Project


▲ SNU Department of Computer Science and Engineering Professor Chun Byung-Gon (Left) and His Research Team (Right)
SNU College of Engineering (Dean Cha Kook-Heon) announces on 28th that the big data analysis system “Nemo” created by the research team led by Professor Chun Byung-Gon of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has been accepted as open source incubator project from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
The “Nemo” is a project mentored by software developers of Microsoft, Google, Databricks, and Coupang. Professor Chun’s team, with the unwavering support of the Ministry of Science and ICT, has conducted extensive research for this project’s “Software Star Lab” assignment and as a result, received approval from ASF. As a rare case in Korea, this approval is expected to secure national competitiveness in the field of big data analysis technology.
Nemo supports a technology that analyzes big data. Conventional data analysis technology has a fixed operating method that prevents it from flexibly responding to various data center’s resource environments and special workloads. However, Nemo resolves this limitation by providing operating methods optimized for specific data center resources and workloads. It has shown a higher performance than the widely-used SPARK.
Nemo converts data analysis applications created using SPARK, a programming language commonly used in beam and big data analysis that is also compatible with Google Cloud, to efficiently disperse tasks. The system also provides extensions that can run existing applications.
Professor Chun states, “Nemo project has demonstrated Korea’s first core platform technology in the field of big data analysis. It has received a great deal of attention from Google and other industries for its outstanding technological skills. We will further improve the system to become even more influential in both industrial and academic worlds.”
Meanwhile the Apache Software Foundations is world’s largest non-profit organization that supports open source software. It currently incubated over 230 open source projects around the world.