BigDL: A Distributed Deep Learning Framework for Big Data
Jason Dai, Yiheng Wang, Xin Qiu, Ding Ding, Yao Zhang, Yanzhang Wang, Xianyan Jia, Cherry Zhang, Yan Wan, Zhichao Li, Jiao Wang, Shengsheng Huang, Zhongyuan Wu, Yang Wang, Yuhao Yang, Bowen She, Dongjie Shi, Qi Lu, Kai Huang, Guoqiong Song
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Abstract
This paper presents BigDL (a distributed deep learning framework for Apache Spark), which has been used by a variety of users in the industry for building deep learning applications on production big data platforms. It allows deep learning applications to run on the Apache Hadoop/Spark cluster so as to directly process the production data, and as a part of the end-to-end data analysis pipeline for deployment and management. Unlike existing deep learning frameworks, BigDL implements distributed, data parallel training directly on top of the functional compute model (with copy-on-write and coarse-grained operations) of Spark. We also share real-world experience and "war stories" of users that have adopted BigDL to address their challenges(i.e., how to easily build end-to-end data analysis and deep learning pipelines for their production data).