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Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library (DAAL)

Team Member

1. Luong Chuong
2. Jacky Siu
3. Woodson Delhia

Intro OLD

Local DAAL Examples Location: C:\Program Files (x86)\IntelSWTools\compilers_and_libraries_2016\windows\daal\examples

Data: http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/cad804cd-454e-4bd7-9f22-fcee64f60719

New Data: http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/be3880f2-0d04-4583-8265-611b231ebce8

Parser code: https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/610127

Low Order Moments: https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/599561

Our goal is to parse & process this crime data and to add more meaning to said data. Using various parallel techniques taught in the course and comparing them via the DAAL library.

Introduction

DAAL is a C++ & Java / Scala library for data analytics. It's similar to MKL with some differences:

• MKL focuses on computation. DAAL focuses on the entire data flow (aquisition, transformation, processing).
• Optimized for all kinds of Intel based devices (from data center to home computers)

DAAL supports 3 processing modes

• Offline Processing (Batch) - Data can fit in memory, data can be processed all at once.
• Online Processing (Streaming) - Data is too big for memory, DAAL processes the data in chunks and combine the partial results for the final result.
• Distributed processing - Distributes data processing. DAAL has not bound the communication method and leaves it to the developer (Hadoop, Spark, MPI etc).

Code Examples

Batch Sorting

/* file: sorting_batch.cpp
* Copyright 2014-2016 Intel Corporation All Rights Reserved.*/

#include "daal.h"
#include "service.h"

using namespace daal;
using namespace daal::algorithms;
using namespace daal::data_management;
using namespace std;

/* Input data set parameters */
string datasetFileName = "../data/batch/sorting.csv";

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    checkArguments(argc, argv, 1, &datasetFileName);

    /* Initialize FileDataSource<CSVFeatureManager> to retrieve the input data from a .csv file */
    FileDataSource<CSVFeatureManager> dataSource(datasetFileName, DataSource::doAllocateNumericTable, DataSource::doDictionaryFromContext);

    /* Retrieve the data from the input file */
    dataSource.loadDataBlock();

    /* Create algorithm objects to sort data using the default (radix) method */
    sorting::Batch<> algorithm;

    /* Print the input observations matrix */
    printNumericTable(dataSource.getNumericTable(), "Initial matrix of observations:");

    /* Set input objects for the algorithm */
    algorithm.input.set(sorting::data, dataSource.getNumericTable());

    /* Sort data observations */
    algorithm.compute();

    /* Get the sorting result */
    services::SharedPtr<sorting::Result> res = algorithm.getResult();

    printNumericTable(res->get(sorting::sortedData), "Sorted matrix of observations:");

    return 0;
}

Useful Link

1. https://software.intel.com/en-us/daal