diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/driver/Driver.java b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/driver/Driver.java
index 72256f9..1f071bf 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/driver/Driver.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/driver/Driver.java
@@ -22,9 +22,6 @@
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.EnumSet;
 import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Set;
-import java.util.TreeSet;
-import java.util.UUID;
 
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
@@ -33,6 +30,7 @@
 
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.client.HyracksConnection;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.client.IHyracksClientConnection;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.deployment.DeploymentId;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksException;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.job.JobFlag;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.job.JobId;
@@ -45,7 +43,6 @@
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.jobgen.JobGenOuterJoinSingleSort;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.jobgen.JobGenOuterJoinSort;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.jobgen.clusterconfig.ClusterConfig;
-import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.util.Utilities;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.dataflow.util.IterationUtils;
 
 @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
@@ -54,9 +51,7 @@
     private JobGen jobGen;
     private boolean profiling;
 
-    private String applicationName;
     private IHyracksClientConnection hcc;
-
     private Class exampleClass;
 
     public Driver(Class exampleClass) {
@@ -71,7 +66,6 @@
     @Override
     public void runJob(PregelixJob job, Plan planChoice, String ipAddress, int port, boolean profiling)
             throws HyracksException {
-        applicationName = exampleClass.getSimpleName() + UUID.randomUUID();
         try {
             /** add hadoop configurations */
             URL hadoopCore = job.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("core-site.xml");
@@ -121,13 +115,13 @@
             for (URL url : urls)
                 if (url.toString().endsWith(".jar"))
                     jars.add(new File(url.getPath()));
-            installApplication(jars);
+            DeploymentId deploymentId = installApplication(jars);
 
             start = System.currentTimeMillis();
             FileSystem dfs = FileSystem.get(job.getConfiguration());
             dfs.delete(FileOutputFormat.getOutputPath(job), true);
-            runCreate(jobGen);
-            runDataLoad(jobGen);
+            runCreate(deploymentId, jobGen);
+            runDataLoad(deploymentId, jobGen);
             end = System.currentTimeMillis();
             time = end - start;
             LOG.info("data loading finished " + time + "ms");
@@ -135,7 +129,7 @@
             boolean terminate = false;
             do {
                 start = System.currentTimeMillis();
-                runLoopBodyIteration(jobGen, i);
+                runLoopBodyIteration(deploymentId, jobGen, i);
                 end = System.currentTimeMillis();
                 time = end - start;
                 LOG.info("iteration " + i + " finished " + time + "ms");
@@ -145,90 +139,86 @@
             } while (!terminate);
 
             start = System.currentTimeMillis();
-            runHDFSWRite(jobGen);
-            runCleanup(jobGen);
+            runHDFSWRite(deploymentId, jobGen);
+            runCleanup(deploymentId, jobGen);
             end = System.currentTimeMillis();
             time = end - start;
             LOG.info("result writing finished " + time + "ms");
+            hcc.unDeployBinary(deploymentId);
             LOG.info("job finished");
         } catch (Exception e) {
             throw new HyracksException(e);
         }
     }
 
-    private void runCreate(JobGen jobGen) throws Exception {
+    private void runCreate(DeploymentId deploymentId, JobGen jobGen) throws Exception {
         try {
             JobSpecification treeCreateSpec = jobGen.generateCreatingJob();
-            execute(treeCreateSpec);
+            execute(deploymentId, treeCreateSpec);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             throw e;
         }
     }
 
-    private void runDataLoad(JobGen jobGen) throws Exception {
+    private void runDataLoad(DeploymentId deploymentId, JobGen jobGen) throws Exception {
         try {
             JobSpecification bulkLoadJobSpec = jobGen.generateLoadingJob();
-            execute(bulkLoadJobSpec);
+            execute(deploymentId, bulkLoadJobSpec);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             throw e;
         }
     }
 
-    private void runLoopBodyIteration(JobGen jobGen, int iteration) throws Exception {
+    private void runLoopBodyIteration(DeploymentId deploymentId, JobGen jobGen, int iteration) throws Exception {
         try {
             JobSpecification loopBody = jobGen.generateJob(iteration);
-            execute(loopBody);
+            execute(deploymentId, loopBody);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             throw e;
         }
     }
 
-    private void runHDFSWRite(JobGen jobGen) throws Exception {
+    private void runHDFSWRite(DeploymentId deploymentId, JobGen jobGen) throws Exception {
         try {
             JobSpecification scanSortPrintJobSpec = jobGen.scanIndexWriteGraph();
-            execute(scanSortPrintJobSpec);
+            execute(deploymentId, scanSortPrintJobSpec);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             throw e;
         }
     }
 
-    private void runCleanup(JobGen jobGen) throws Exception {
+    private void runCleanup(DeploymentId deploymentId, JobGen jobGen) throws Exception {
         try {
             JobSpecification[] cleanups = jobGen.generateCleanup();
-            runJobArray(cleanups);
+            runJobArray(deploymentId, cleanups);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             throw e;
         }
     }
 
-    private void runJobArray(JobSpecification[] jobs) throws Exception {
+    private void runJobArray(DeploymentId deploymentId, JobSpecification[] jobs) throws Exception {
         for (JobSpecification job : jobs) {
-            execute(job);
+            execute(deploymentId, job);
         }
     }
 
-    private void execute(JobSpecification job) throws Exception {
+    private void execute(DeploymentId deploymentId, JobSpecification job) throws Exception {
         job.setUseConnectorPolicyForScheduling(false);
-        JobId jobId = hcc
-                .startJob(job, profiling ? EnumSet.of(JobFlag.PROFILE_RUNTIME) : EnumSet.noneOf(JobFlag.class));
+        JobId jobId = hcc.startJob(deploymentId, job,
+                profiling ? EnumSet.of(JobFlag.PROFILE_RUNTIME) : EnumSet.noneOf(JobFlag.class));
         hcc.waitForCompletion(jobId);
     }
 
-    public void installApplication(List<File> jars) throws Exception {
-        Set<String> allJars = new TreeSet<String>();
+    public DeploymentId installApplication(List<File> jars) throws Exception {
+        List<String> allJars = new ArrayList<String>();
         for (File jar : jars) {
             allJars.add(jar.getAbsolutePath());
         }
         long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
-        File appZip = Utilities.getHyracksArchive(applicationName, allJars);
+        DeploymentId deploymentId = hcc.deployBinary(allJars);
         long end = System.currentTimeMillis();
-        LOG.info("jar packing finished " + (end - start) + "ms");
-
-        start = System.currentTimeMillis();
-        // TODO: Fix this step to use Yarn
-        //hcc.createApplication(applicationName, appZip);
-        end = System.currentTimeMillis();
         LOG.info("jar deployment finished " + (end - start) + "ms");
+        return deploymentId;
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/hadoop/config/ConfigurationFactory.java b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/hadoop/config/ConfigurationFactory.java
index f3089ba..d225eb4 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/hadoop/config/ConfigurationFactory.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/hadoop/config/ConfigurationFactory.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.context.IHyracksTaskContext;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.api.util.SerDeUtils;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.dataflow.base.IConfigurationFactory;
@@ -34,11 +35,11 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public Configuration createConfiguration() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public Configuration createConfiguration(IHyracksTaskContext ctx) throws HyracksDataException {
         try {
             Configuration conf = new Configuration();
+            conf.setClassLoader(ctx.getJobletContext().getClassLoader());
             SerDeUtils.deserialize(conf, data);
-            conf.setClassLoader(this.getClass().getClassLoader());
             return conf;
         } catch (Exception e) {
             throw new HyracksDataException(e);
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGen.java b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGen.java
index 77fd1a7..ce1a34d 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGen.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGen.java
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.jobgen.provider.NormalizedKeyComputerFactoryProvider;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.runtime.touchpoint.WritableComparingBinaryComparatorFactory;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.util.DataflowUtils;
-import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.util.DatatypeHelper;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.dataflow.HDFSFileWriteOperatorDescriptor;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.dataflow.VertexFileScanOperatorDescriptor;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.dataflow.VertexWriteOperatorDescriptor;
@@ -84,6 +83,7 @@
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.bootstrap.StorageManagerInterface;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.RuntimeHookFactory;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory;
 
 public abstract class JobGen implements IJobGen {
     private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(JobGen.class.getName());
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@
          * connect operator descriptors
          */
         ITuplePartitionComputerFactory hashPartitionComputerFactory = new VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory(
-                DatatypeHelper.createSerializerDeserializer(vertexIdClass));
+                new WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory(vertexIdClass));
         spec.connect(new MToNPartitioningConnectorDescriptor(spec, hashPartitionComputerFactory), scanner, 0, sorter, 0);
         spec.connect(new OneToOneConnectorDescriptor(spec), sorter, 0, btreeBulkLoad, 0);
         return spec;
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@
          * connect operator descriptors
          */
         ITuplePartitionComputerFactory hashPartitionComputerFactory = new VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory(
-                DatatypeHelper.createSerializerDeserializer(vertexIdClass));
+                new WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory(vertexIdClass));
         spec.connect(new OneToOneConnectorDescriptor(spec), scanner, 0, sorter, 0);
         spec.connect(new MToNPartitioningMergingConnectorDescriptor(spec, hashPartitionComputerFactory, sortFields,
                 comparatorFactories), sorter, 0, writer, 0);
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@
         int[] sortFields = new int[1];
         sortFields[0] = 0;
         ITuplePartitionComputerFactory hashPartitionComputerFactory = new VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory(
-                DatatypeHelper.createSerializerDeserializer(vertexIdClass));
+                new WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory(vertexIdClass));
         spec.connect(new OneToOneConnectorDescriptor(spec), emptyTupleSource, 0, scanner, 0);
         spec.connect(new MToNPartitioningMergingConnectorDescriptor(spec, hashPartitionComputerFactory, sortFields,
                 comparatorFactories), scanner, 0, writer, 0);
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGenInnerJoin.java b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGenInnerJoin.java
index fe2fcac..ff2f6a0 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGenInnerJoin.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGenInnerJoin.java
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.PreSuperStepRuntimeHookFactory;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.RuntimeHookFactory;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory;
 
 public class JobGenInnerJoin extends JobGen {
 
@@ -245,7 +246,7 @@
         ClusterConfig.setLocationConstraint(spec, emptySink4);
 
         ITuplePartitionComputerFactory partionFactory = new VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory(
-                rdUnnestedMessage.getFields()[0]);
+                new WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory(vertexIdClass));
         ITuplePartitionComputerFactory unifyingPartitionComputerFactory = new MergePartitionComputerFactory();
 
         /** connect all operators **/
@@ -470,7 +471,7 @@
 
         ITuplePartitionComputerFactory unifyingPartitionComputerFactory = new MergePartitionComputerFactory();
         ITuplePartitionComputerFactory partionFactory = new VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory(
-                rdUnnestedMessage.getFields()[0]);
+                new WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory(vertexIdClass));
         /** connect all operators **/
         spec.connect(new OneToOneConnectorDescriptor(spec), emptyTupleSource, 0, preSuperStep, 0);
         spec.connect(new OneToOneConnectorDescriptor(spec), preSuperStep, 0, materializeRead, 0);
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGenOuterJoin.java b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGenOuterJoin.java
index f1eceb7..ee385f1 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGenOuterJoin.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGenOuterJoin.java
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.RuntimeHookFactory;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.VertexIdNullWriterFactory;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory;
 
 public class JobGenOuterJoin extends JobGen {
 
@@ -221,14 +222,13 @@
 
         /** construct empty sink operator */
         EmptySinkOperatorDescriptor emptySink3 = new EmptySinkOperatorDescriptor(spec);
-        ClusterConfig.setLocationConstraint(spec, emptySink3);
 
         /** construct empty sink operator */
         EmptySinkOperatorDescriptor emptySink4 = new EmptySinkOperatorDescriptor(spec);
         ClusterConfig.setLocationConstraint(spec, emptySink4);
 
         ITuplePartitionComputerFactory partionFactory = new VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory(
-                rdUnnestedMessage.getFields()[0]);
+                new WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory(vertexIdClass));
         /** connect all operators **/
         spec.connect(new OneToOneConnectorDescriptor(spec), emptyTupleSource, 0, preSuperStep, 0);
         spec.connect(new OneToOneConnectorDescriptor(spec), preSuperStep, 0, scanner, 0);
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@
 
         ITuplePartitionComputerFactory unifyingPartitionComputerFactory = new MergePartitionComputerFactory();
         ITuplePartitionComputerFactory partionFactory = new VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory(
-                rdUnnestedMessage.getFields()[0]);
+                new WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory(vertexIdClass));
 
         /** connect all operators **/
         spec.connect(new OneToOneConnectorDescriptor(spec), emptyTupleSource, 0, preSuperStep, 0);
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGenOuterJoinSingleSort.java b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGenOuterJoinSingleSort.java
index 314c393..40b5f45 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGenOuterJoinSingleSort.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGenOuterJoinSingleSort.java
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.RuntimeHookFactory;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.VertexIdNullWriterFactory;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory;
 
 public class JobGenOuterJoinSingleSort extends JobGen {
 
@@ -221,7 +222,7 @@
 
         ITuplePartitionComputerFactory unifyingPartitionComputerFactory = new MergePartitionComputerFactory();
         ITuplePartitionComputerFactory partionFactory = new VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory(
-                rdUnnestedMessage.getFields()[0]);
+                new WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory(vertexIdClass));
         /** connect all operators **/
         spec.connect(new OneToOneConnectorDescriptor(spec), emptyTupleSource, 0, preSuperStep, 0);
         spec.connect(new OneToOneConnectorDescriptor(spec), preSuperStep, 0, scanner, 0);
@@ -408,7 +409,7 @@
 
         ITuplePartitionComputerFactory unifyingPartitionComputerFactory = new MergePartitionComputerFactory();
         ITuplePartitionComputerFactory partionFactory = new VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory(
-                rdUnnestedMessage.getFields()[0]);
+                new WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory(vertexIdClass));
 
         /** connect all operators **/
         spec.connect(new OneToOneConnectorDescriptor(spec), emptyTupleSource, 0, preSuperStep, 0);
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGenOuterJoinSort.java b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGenOuterJoinSort.java
index 0c3db38..3351a2c 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGenOuterJoinSort.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/jobgen/JobGenOuterJoinSort.java
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.RuntimeHookFactory;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.VertexIdNullWriterFactory;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory;
 
 public class JobGenOuterJoinSort extends JobGen {
 
@@ -234,7 +235,7 @@
         ClusterConfig.setLocationConstraint(spec, emptySink4);
 
         ITuplePartitionComputerFactory partionFactory = new VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory(
-                rdUnnestedMessage.getFields()[0]);
+                new WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory(vertexIdClass));
         /** connect all operators **/
         spec.connect(new OneToOneConnectorDescriptor(spec), emptyTupleSource, 0, preSuperStep, 0);
         spec.connect(new OneToOneConnectorDescriptor(spec), preSuperStep, 0, scanner, 0);
@@ -441,7 +442,7 @@
 
         ITuplePartitionComputerFactory unifyingPartitionComputerFactory = new MergePartitionComputerFactory();
         ITuplePartitionComputerFactory partionFactory = new VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory(
-                rdUnnestedMessage.getFields()[0]);
+                new WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory(vertexIdClass));
 
         /** connect all operators **/
         spec.connect(new OneToOneConnectorDescriptor(spec), emptyTupleSource, 0, preSuperStep, 0);
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/runtime/touchpoint/WritableRecordDescriptorFactory.java b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/runtime/touchpoint/WritableRecordDescriptorFactory.java
index d1d927d..145169e 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/runtime/touchpoint/WritableRecordDescriptorFactory.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/runtime/touchpoint/WritableRecordDescriptorFactory.java
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
  */
 package edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.runtime.touchpoint;
 
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.context.IHyracksTaskContext;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.RecordDescriptor;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksException;
@@ -29,9 +30,9 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public RecordDescriptor createRecordDescriptor() throws HyracksDataException {
+    public RecordDescriptor createRecordDescriptor(IHyracksTaskContext ctx) throws HyracksDataException {
         try {
-            return DataflowUtils.getRecordDescriptorFromWritableClasses(fieldClasses);
+            return DataflowUtils.getRecordDescriptorFromWritableClasses(ctx, fieldClasses);
         } catch (HyracksException e) {
             throw new HyracksDataException(e);
         }
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/util/DataflowUtils.java b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/util/DataflowUtils.java
index bcf3ffc..e9132c4 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/util/DataflowUtils.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/util/DataflowUtils.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;
 
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.context.IHyracksTaskContext;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.ISerializerDeserializer;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.RecordDescriptor;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksException;
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.dataflow.std.base.IRecordDescriptorFactory;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.simpleagg.AccumulatingAggregatorFactory;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.simpleagg.AggregationFunctionFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint.DatatypeHelper;
 
 public class DataflowUtils {
 
@@ -40,9 +42,10 @@
             throws HyracksException {
         RecordDescriptor recordDescriptor = null;
         try {
+            ClassLoader loader = DataflowUtils.class.getClassLoader();
             recordDescriptor = DatatypeHelper.createKeyValueRecordDescriptor(
-                    (Class<? extends Writable>) Class.forName(className1),
-                    (Class<? extends Writable>) Class.forName(className2));
+                    (Class<? extends Writable>) loader.loadClass(className1),
+                    (Class<? extends Writable>) loader.loadClass(className2));
         } catch (ClassNotFoundException cnfe) {
             throw new HyracksException(cnfe);
         }
@@ -53,11 +56,12 @@
     public static RecordDescriptor getRecordDescriptorFromWritableClasses(String... classNames) throws HyracksException {
         RecordDescriptor recordDescriptor = null;
         ISerializerDeserializer[] serdes = new ISerializerDeserializer[classNames.length];
+        ClassLoader loader = DataflowUtils.class.getClassLoader();
         try {
             int i = 0;
             for (String className : classNames)
-                serdes[i++] = DatatypeHelper.createSerializerDeserializer((Class<? extends Writable>) Class
-                        .forName(className));
+                serdes[i++] = DatatypeHelper.createSerializerDeserializer((Class<? extends Writable>) loader
+                        .loadClass(className));
         } catch (ClassNotFoundException cnfe) {
             throw new HyracksException(cnfe);
         }
@@ -79,4 +83,35 @@
                 new IAggregateFunctionFactory[] { aggFuncFactory });
         return aggregatorFactory;
     }
+
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    public static RecordDescriptor getRecordDescriptorFromKeyValueClasses(IHyracksTaskContext ctx, String className1,
+            String className2) throws HyracksException {
+        RecordDescriptor recordDescriptor = null;
+        try {
+            recordDescriptor = DatatypeHelper.createKeyValueRecordDescriptor((Class<? extends Writable>) ctx
+                    .getJobletContext().loadClass(className1), (Class<? extends Writable>) ctx.getJobletContext()
+                    .loadClass(className2));
+        } catch (Exception cnfe) {
+            throw new HyracksException(cnfe);
+        }
+        return recordDescriptor;
+    }
+
+    @SuppressWarnings({ "unchecked", "rawtypes" })
+    public static RecordDescriptor getRecordDescriptorFromWritableClasses(IHyracksTaskContext ctx, String... classNames)
+            throws HyracksException {
+        RecordDescriptor recordDescriptor = null;
+        ISerializerDeserializer[] serdes = new ISerializerDeserializer[classNames.length];
+        try {
+            int i = 0;
+            for (String className : classNames)
+                serdes[i++] = DatatypeHelper.createSerializerDeserializer((Class<? extends Writable>) ctx
+                        .getJobletContext().loadClass(className));
+        } catch (Exception cnfe) {
+            throw new HyracksException(cnfe);
+        }
+        recordDescriptor = new RecordDescriptor(serdes);
+        return recordDescriptor;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/conf/cluster.properties b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/conf/cluster.properties
index 2d2401a..056cce4 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/conf/cluster.properties
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/conf/cluster.properties
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@
 #The CC port for Hyracks cluster management
 CC_CLUSTERPORT=1099
 
-#The directory of hyracks binaries
-HYRACKS_HOME=../../../../hyracks
-
 #The tmp directory for cc to install jars
 CCTMP_DIR=/tmp/t1
 
@@ -29,9 +26,11 @@
 FRAME_SIZE=65536
 
 #CC JAVA_OPTS
-CCJAVA_OPTS="-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=7001,server=y,suspend=n -Xmx1g -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties"
+CCJAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1g -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties"
+# debug option: CCJAVA_OPTS="-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=7001,server=y,suspend=n -Xmx1g -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties"
 # Yourkit option: -agentpath:/grid/0/dev/vborkar/tools/yjp-10.0.4/bin/linux-x86-64/libyjpagent.so=port=20001"
 
 #NC JAVA_OPTS
-NCJAVA_OPTS="-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=7002,server=y,suspend=n -Xmx1g -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties"
-
+NCJAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1g -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties"
+# debug option: NCJAVA_OPTS="-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=7002,server=y,suspend=n -Xmx1g -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties"
+# Yourkit option: -agentpath:/grid/0/dev/vborkar/tools/yjp-10.0.4/bin/linux-x86-64/libyjpagent.so=port=20001"
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/hyracks-deployment.properties b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/hyracks-deployment.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index d5d7cd0..0000000
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/hyracks-deployment.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-nc.bootstrap.class=edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.bootstrap.NCBootstrapImpl
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/getip.sh b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/getip.sh
index a691c0f..1b44d09 100755
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/getip.sh
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/getip.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright 2009-2013 by The Regents of the University of California
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# you may obtain a copy of the License from
+# 
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+
 #get the OS
 OS_NAME=`uname -a|awk '{print $1}'`
 LINUX_OS='Linux'
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/pregelix b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/pregelix
index b1a2f74..7232ccc 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/pregelix
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/pregelix
@@ -1,22 +1,20 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#  Copyright 2001-2006 The Apache Software Foundation.
 #
-#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright 2009-2013 by The Regents of the University of California
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# you may obtain a copy of the License from
+# 
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #
-#       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-#  limitations under the License.
-# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#
-#   Copyright (c) 2001-2006 The Apache Software Foundation.  All rights
-#   reserved.
 
 
 # resolve links - $0 may be a softlink
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/pregelixcc b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/pregelixcc
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..c1ee3f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/pregelixcc
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright 2009-2013 by The Regents of the University of California
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# you may obtain a copy of the License from
+# 
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+
+# resolve links - $0 may be a softlink
+PRG="$0"
+
+while [ -h "$PRG" ]; do
+  ls=`ls -ld "$PRG"`
+  link=`expr "$ls" : '.*-> \(.*\)$'`
+  if expr "$link" : '/.*' > /dev/null; then
+    PRG="$link"
+  else
+    PRG=`dirname "$PRG"`/"$link"
+  fi
+done
+
+PRGDIR=`dirname "$PRG"`
+BASEDIR=`cd "$PRGDIR/.." >/dev/null; pwd`
+
+
+
+# OS specific support.  $var _must_ be set to either true or false.
+cygwin=false;
+darwin=false;
+case "`uname`" in
+  CYGWIN*) cygwin=true ;;
+  Darwin*) darwin=true
+           if [ -z "$JAVA_VERSION" ] ; then
+             JAVA_VERSION="CurrentJDK"
+           else
+             echo "Using Java version: $JAVA_VERSION"
+           fi
+           if [ -z "$JAVA_HOME" ] ; then
+             JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/${JAVA_VERSION}/Home
+           fi
+           ;;
+esac
+
+if [ -z "$JAVA_HOME" ] ; then
+  if [ -r /etc/gentoo-release ] ; then
+    JAVA_HOME=`java-config --jre-home`
+  fi
+fi
+
+# For Cygwin, ensure paths are in UNIX format before anything is touched
+if $cygwin ; then
+  [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ] && JAVA_HOME=`cygpath --unix "$JAVA_HOME"`
+  [ -n "$CLASSPATH" ] && CLASSPATH=`cygpath --path --unix "$CLASSPATH"`
+fi
+
+# If a specific java binary isn't specified search for the standard 'java' binary
+if [ -z "$JAVACMD" ] ; then
+  if [ -n "$JAVA_HOME"  ] ; then
+    if [ -x "$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java" ] ; then
+      # IBM's JDK on AIX uses strange locations for the executables
+      JAVACMD="$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java"
+    else
+      JAVACMD="$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"
+    fi
+  else
+    JAVACMD=`which java`
+  fi
+fi
+
+if [ ! -x "$JAVACMD" ] ; then
+  echo "Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly." 1>&2
+  echo "  We cannot execute $JAVACMD" 1>&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$REPO" ]
+then
+  REPO="$BASEDIR"/lib
+fi
+
+CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH_PREFIX:"$HADOOP_HOME"/conf:/etc/hadoop/conf:"$BASEDIR"/etc:$1
+
+for f in ${REPO}/*.jar; do
+  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:$f;
+done
+
+# For Cygwin, switch paths to Windows format before running java
+if $cygwin; then
+  [ -n "$CLASSPATH" ] && CLASSPATH=`cygpath --path --windows "$CLASSPATH"`
+  [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ] && JAVA_HOME=`cygpath --path --windows "$JAVA_HOME"`
+  [ -n "$HOME" ] && HOME=`cygpath --path --windows "$HOME"`
+  [ -n "$BASEDIR" ] && BASEDIR=`cygpath --path --windows "$BASEDIR"`
+  [ -n "$REPO" ] && REPO=`cygpath --path --windows "$REPO"`
+fi
+
+exec "$JAVACMD" $JAVA_OPTS  \
+  -classpath "$CLASSPATH" \
+  -Dapp.name="pregelixcc" \
+  -Dapp.pid="$$" \
+  -Dapp.repo="$REPO" \
+  -Dapp.home="$BASEDIR" \
+  -Dbasedir="$BASEDIR" \
+  edu.uci.ics.hyracks.control.cc.CCDriver \
+  "$@"
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/pregelixnc b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/pregelixnc
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..c01b4b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/pregelixnc
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright 2009-2013 by The Regents of the University of California
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# you may obtain a copy of the License from
+# 
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+
+# resolve links - $0 may be a softlink
+PRG="$0"
+
+while [ -h "$PRG" ]; do
+  ls=`ls -ld "$PRG"`
+  link=`expr "$ls" : '.*-> \(.*\)$'`
+  if expr "$link" : '/.*' > /dev/null; then
+    PRG="$link"
+  else
+    PRG=`dirname "$PRG"`/"$link"
+  fi
+done
+
+PRGDIR=`dirname "$PRG"`
+BASEDIR=`cd "$PRGDIR/.." >/dev/null; pwd`
+
+
+
+# OS specific support.  $var _must_ be set to either true or false.
+cygwin=false;
+darwin=false;
+case "`uname`" in
+  CYGWIN*) cygwin=true ;;
+  Darwin*) darwin=true
+           if [ -z "$JAVA_VERSION" ] ; then
+             JAVA_VERSION="CurrentJDK"
+           else
+             echo "Using Java version: $JAVA_VERSION"
+           fi
+           if [ -z "$JAVA_HOME" ] ; then
+             JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/${JAVA_VERSION}/Home
+           fi
+           ;;
+esac
+
+if [ -z "$JAVA_HOME" ] ; then
+  if [ -r /etc/gentoo-release ] ; then
+    JAVA_HOME=`java-config --jre-home`
+  fi
+fi
+
+# For Cygwin, ensure paths are in UNIX format before anything is touched
+if $cygwin ; then
+  [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ] && JAVA_HOME=`cygpath --unix "$JAVA_HOME"`
+  [ -n "$CLASSPATH" ] && CLASSPATH=`cygpath --path --unix "$CLASSPATH"`
+fi
+
+# If a specific java binary isn't specified search for the standard 'java' binary
+if [ -z "$JAVACMD" ] ; then
+  if [ -n "$JAVA_HOME"  ] ; then
+    if [ -x "$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java" ] ; then
+      # IBM's JDK on AIX uses strange locations for the executables
+      JAVACMD="$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java"
+    else
+      JAVACMD="$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"
+    fi
+  else
+    JAVACMD=`which java`
+  fi
+fi
+
+if [ ! -x "$JAVACMD" ] ; then
+  echo "Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly." 1>&2
+  echo "  We cannot execute $JAVACMD" 1>&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$REPO" ]
+then
+  REPO="$BASEDIR"/lib
+fi
+
+CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH_PREFIX:"$HADOOP_HOME"/conf:/etc/hadoop/conf:"$BASEDIR"/etc:$1
+
+for f in ${REPO}/*.jar; do
+  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:$f;
+done
+
+
+# For Cygwin, switch paths to Windows format before running java
+if $cygwin; then
+  [ -n "$CLASSPATH" ] && CLASSPATH=`cygpath --path --windows "$CLASSPATH"`
+  [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ] && JAVA_HOME=`cygpath --path --windows "$JAVA_HOME"`
+  [ -n "$HOME" ] && HOME=`cygpath --path --windows "$HOME"`2
+  [ -n "$BASEDIR" ] && BASEDIR=`cygpath --path --windows "$BASEDIR"`
+  [ -n "$REPO" ] && REPO=`cygpath --path --windows "$REPO"`
+fi
+
+exec "$JAVACMD" $JAVA_OPTS  \
+  -classpath "$CLASSPATH" \
+  -Dapp.name="pregelixnc" \
+  -Dapp.pid="$$" \
+  -Dapp.repo="$REPO" \
+  -Dapp.home="$BASEDIR" \
+  -Dbasedir="$BASEDIR" \
+  edu.uci.ics.hyracks.control.nc.NCDriver \
+  -app-nc-main-class edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.bootstrap.NCApplicationEntryPoint "$@"
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startAllNCs.sh b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startAllNCs.sh
index d30da26..821be00 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startAllNCs.sh
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startAllNCs.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright 2009-2013 by The Regents of the University of California
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# you may obtain a copy of the License from
+# 
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+
 PREGELIX_PATH=`pwd`
 
 for i in `cat conf/slaves`
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startCluster.sh b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startCluster.sh
index a0c2063..cddf9a4 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startCluster.sh
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startCluster.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright 2009-2013 by The Regents of the University of California
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# you may obtain a copy of the License from
+# 
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+
 bin/startcc.sh
 sleep 5
 bin/startAllNCs.sh
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startDebugNc.sh b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startDebugNc.sh
index fe6cf27..bb43686 100755
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startDebugNc.sh
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startDebugNc.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright 2009-2013 by The Regents of the University of California
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# you may obtain a copy of the License from
+# 
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+
 hostname
 
 #Get the IP address of the cc
@@ -40,11 +58,11 @@
 #Set JAVA_OPTS
 export JAVA_OPTS=$NCJAVA_OPTS2
 
-cd $HYRACKS_HOME
-HYRACKS_HOME=`pwd`
+PREGELIX_HOME=`pwd`
 
 #Enter the temp dir
 cd $NCTMP_DIR2
 
 #Launch hyracks nc
-$HYRACKS_HOME/hyracks-server/target/appassembler/bin/hyracksnc -cc-host $CCHOST -cc-port $CC_CLUSTERPORT -cluster-net-ip-address $IPADDR  -data-ip-address $IPADDR -node-id $NODEID -iodevices "${IO_DIRS2}" &> $NCLOGS_DIR2/$NODEID.log &
+#echo ${PREGELIX_HOME}/bin/pregelixnc -cc-host $CCHOST -cc-port $CC_CLUSTERPORT -cluster-net-ip-address $IPADDR  -data-ip-address $IPADDR -result-ip-address $IPADDR  -node-id $NODEID -iodevices "${IO_DIRS}"
+${PREGELIX_HOME}/bin/pregelixnc -cc-host $CCHOST -cc-port $CC_CLUSTERPORT -cluster-net-ip-address $IPADDR  -data-ip-address $IPADDR -result-ip-address $IPADDR  -node-id $NODEID -iodevices "${IO_DIRS2}" &> $NCLOGS_DIR2/$NODEID.log &
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startcc.sh b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startcc.sh
index 133b604..282a6e7 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startcc.sh
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startcc.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,21 @@
 #!/bin/bash
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright 2009-2013 by The Regents of the University of California
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# you may obtain a copy of the License from
+# 
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+
 hostname
 
 #Import cluster properties
@@ -20,12 +37,15 @@
 export JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME
 export JAVA_OPTS=$CCJAVA_OPTS
 
+PREGELIX_HOME=`pwd`
 
-chmod -R 755 $HYRACKS_HOME
+#Enter the temp dir
+cd $CCTMP_DIR
+
 if [ -f "conf/topology.xml"  ]; then
 #Launch hyracks cc script with topology
-$HYRACKS_HOME/hyracks-server/target/appassembler/bin/hyrackscc -client-net-ip-address $CCHOST -cluster-net-ip-address $CCHOST -client-net-port $CC_CLIENTPORT -cluster-net-port $CC_CLUSTERPORT -max-heartbeat-lapse-periods 999999 -default-max-job-attempts 0 -job-history-size 0 -cluster-topology "conf/topology.xml" &> $CCLOGS_DIR/cc.log &
+${PREGELIX_HOME}/bin/pregelixcc -client-net-ip-address $CCHOST -cluster-net-ip-address $CCHOST -client-net-port $CC_CLIENTPORT -cluster-net-port $CC_CLUSTERPORT -max-heartbeat-lapse-periods 999999 -default-max-job-attempts 0 -job-history-size 0 -cluster-topology "conf/topology.xml" &> $CCLOGS_DIR/cc.log &
 else
 #Launch hyracks cc script without toplogy
-$HYRACKS_HOME/hyracks-server/target/appassembler/bin/hyrackscc -client-net-ip-address $CCHOST -cluster-net-ip-address $CCHOST -client-net-port $CC_CLIENTPORT -cluster-net-port $CC_CLUSTERPORT -max-heartbeat-lapse-periods 999999 -default-max-job-attempts 0 -job-history-size 0 &> $CCLOGS_DIR/cc.log &
+${PREGELIX_HOME}/bin/pregelixcc -client-net-ip-address $CCHOST -cluster-net-ip-address $CCHOST -client-net-port $CC_CLIENTPORT -cluster-net-port $CC_CLUSTERPORT -max-heartbeat-lapse-periods 999999 -default-max-job-attempts 0 -job-history-size 0 &> $CCLOGS_DIR/cc.log &
 fi
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startnc.sh b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startnc.sh
index b059aad..970c30b 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startnc.sh
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startnc.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright 2009-2013 by The Regents of the University of California
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# you may obtain a copy of the License from
+# 
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+
 hostname
 
 MY_NAME=`hostname`
@@ -39,11 +57,10 @@
 #Set JAVA_OPTS
 export JAVA_OPTS=$NCJAVA_OPTS
 
-cd $HYRACKS_HOME
-HYRACKS_HOME=`pwd`
+PREGELIX_HOME=`pwd`
 
 #Enter the temp dir
 cd $NCTMP_DIR
 
 #Launch hyracks nc
-$HYRACKS_HOME/hyracks-server/target/appassembler/bin/hyracksnc -cc-host $CCHOST -cc-port $CC_CLUSTERPORT -cluster-net-ip-address $IPADDR  -data-ip-address $IPADDR -result-ip-address $IPADDR  -node-id $NODEID -iodevices "${IO_DIRS}" &> $NCLOGS_DIR/$NODEID.log &
+${PREGELIX_HOME}/bin/pregelixnc -cc-host $CCHOST -cc-port $CC_CLUSTERPORT -cluster-net-ip-address $IPADDR  -data-ip-address $IPADDR -result-ip-address $IPADDR  -node-id $NODEID -iodevices "${IO_DIRS}" &> $NCLOGS_DIR/$NODEID.log &
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/stopAllNCs.sh b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/stopAllNCs.sh
index 12367c1..dc576d1 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/stopAllNCs.sh
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/stopAllNCs.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright 2009-2013 by The Regents of the University of California
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# you may obtain a copy of the License from
+# 
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+
 PREGELIX_PATH=`pwd`
 
 for i in `cat conf/slaves`
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/stopCluster.sh b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/stopCluster.sh
index 4889934..6b829aa 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/stopCluster.sh
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/stopCluster.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright 2009-2013 by The Regents of the University of California
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# you may obtain a copy of the License from
+# 
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+
 bin/stopAllNCs.sh
 sleep 2
 bin/stopcc.sh
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/stopcc.sh b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/stopcc.sh
index c2f525a..8f94fb7 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/stopcc.sh
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/stopcc.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,37 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright 2009-2013 by The Regents of the University of California
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# you may obtain a copy of the License from
+# 
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+
 hostname
 . conf/cluster.properties
 
 #Kill process
-PID=`ps -ef|grep ${USER}|grep java|grep hyracks|awk '{print $2}'`
+#Kill process
+PID=`ps -ef|grep ${USER}|grep java|grep 'Dapp.name=pregelixcc'|awk '{print $2}'`
+
+if [ "$PID" == "" ]; then
+    PID=`ps -ef|grep ${USER}|grep java|grep 'hyracks'|awk '{print $2}'`
+fi
+
+if [ "$PID" == "" ]; then
+    USERID=`id | sed 's/^uid=//;s/(.*$//'`
+    PID=`ps -ef|grep ${USERID}|grep java|grep 'Dapp.name=pregelixcc'|awk '{print $2}'`
+fi
+
 echo $PID
 kill -9 $PID
 
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/stopnc.sh b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/stopnc.sh
index 35c4794..26ef089 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/stopnc.sh
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/stopnc.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,26 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright 2009-2013 by The Regents of the University of California
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# you may obtain a copy of the License from
+# 
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+
 hostname
 . conf/cluster.properties
 
 #Kill process
-PID=`ps -ef|grep ${USER}|grep java|grep 'Dapp.name=hyracksnc'|awk '{print $2}'`
+PID=`ps -ef|grep ${USER}|grep java|grep 'Dapp.name=pregelixnc'|awk '{print $2}'`
 
 if [ "$PID" == "" ]; then
   PID=`ps -ef|grep ${USER}|grep java|grep 'hyracks'|awk '{print $2}'`
@@ -10,7 +28,7 @@
 
 if [ "$PID" == "" ]; then
   USERID=`id | sed 's/^uid=//;s/(.*$//'`
-  PID=`ps -ef|grep ${USERID}|grep java|grep 'Dapp.name=hyracksnc'|awk '{print $2}'`
+  PID=`ps -ef|grep ${USERID}|grep java|grep 'Dapp.name=pregelixnc'|awk '{print $2}'`
 fi
 
 echo $PID
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow-std-base/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/std/base/IAggregateFunctionFactory.java b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow-std-base/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/std/base/IAggregateFunctionFactory.java
index 4be0bed..dc75b07 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow-std-base/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/std/base/IAggregateFunctionFactory.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow-std-base/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/std/base/IAggregateFunctionFactory.java
@@ -16,9 +16,11 @@
 
 import java.io.Serializable;
 
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.context.IHyracksTaskContext;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksException;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.data.std.api.IDataOutputProvider;
 
 public interface IAggregateFunctionFactory extends Serializable {
-    public IAggregateFunction createAggregateFunction(IDataOutputProvider provider) throws HyracksException;
+	public IAggregateFunction createAggregateFunction(IHyracksTaskContext ctx,
+			IDataOutputProvider provider) throws HyracksException;
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow-std-base/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/std/base/IRecordDescriptorFactory.java b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow-std-base/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/std/base/IRecordDescriptorFactory.java
index e7de650..7454f2d 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow-std-base/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/std/base/IRecordDescriptorFactory.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow-std-base/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/std/base/IRecordDescriptorFactory.java
@@ -16,11 +16,12 @@
 
 import java.io.Serializable;
 
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.context.IHyracksTaskContext;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.RecordDescriptor;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
 
 public interface IRecordDescriptorFactory extends Serializable {
 
-    public RecordDescriptor createRecordDescriptor() throws HyracksDataException;
+    public RecordDescriptor createRecordDescriptor(IHyracksTaskContext ctx) throws HyracksDataException;
 
 }
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow-std-base/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/std/base/ISerializerDeserializerFactory.java b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow-std-base/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/std/base/ISerializerDeserializerFactory.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..16b067a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow-std-base/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/std/base/ISerializerDeserializerFactory.java
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+package edu.uci.ics.pregelix.dataflow.std.base;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.ISerializerDeserializer;
+
+public interface ISerializerDeserializerFactory<T> extends Serializable {
+
+	public ISerializerDeserializer<T> getSerializerDeserializer();
+
+}
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow-std/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/std/FunctionCallOperatorDescriptor.java b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow-std/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/std/FunctionCallOperatorDescriptor.java
index 4cbd6c4..24d28b0 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow-std/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/std/FunctionCallOperatorDescriptor.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow-std/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/std/FunctionCallOperatorDescriptor.java
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
             @Override
             public void open() throws HyracksDataException {
                 rd0 = inputRdFactory == null ? recordDescProvider.getInputRecordDescriptor(getActivityId(), 0)
-                        : inputRdFactory.createRecordDescriptor();
+                        : inputRdFactory.createRecordDescriptor(ctx);
                 frameDeserializer = new FrameDeserializer(ctx.getFrameSize(), rd0);
                 ctxCL = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
                 Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(this.getClass().getClassLoader());
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow-std/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/util/FunctionProxy.java b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow-std/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/util/FunctionProxy.java
index 99bca1a..f75dab2 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow-std/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/util/FunctionProxy.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow-std/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/util/FunctionProxy.java
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
      * @throws HyracksDataException
      */
     public void functionOpen() throws HyracksDataException {
-        inputRd = inputRdFactory.createRecordDescriptor();
+        inputRd = inputRdFactory.createRecordDescriptor(ctx);
         tupleDe = new TupleDeserializer(inputRd);
         ctxCL = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
         Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(this.getClass().getClassLoader());
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/FinalAggregateOperatorDescriptor.java b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/FinalAggregateOperatorDescriptor.java
index eda7754..71592ee 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/FinalAggregateOperatorDescriptor.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/FinalAggregateOperatorDescriptor.java
@@ -56,11 +56,11 @@
     public IOperatorNodePushable createPushRuntime(final IHyracksTaskContext ctx,
             IRecordDescriptorProvider recordDescProvider, int partition, int nPartitions) throws HyracksDataException {
         return new AbstractUnaryInputSinkOperatorNodePushable() {
-            private Configuration conf = confFactory.createConfiguration();
+            private Configuration conf = confFactory.createConfiguration(ctx);
             @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
             private GlobalAggregator aggregator = BspUtils.createGlobalAggregator(conf);
             private FrameTupleAccessor accessor = new FrameTupleAccessor(ctx.getFrameSize(),
-                    inputRdFactory.createRecordDescriptor());
+                    inputRdFactory.createRecordDescriptor(ctx));
             private ByteBufferInputStream inputStream = new ByteBufferInputStream();
             private DataInput input = new DataInputStream(inputStream);
             private Writable partialAggregateValue = BspUtils.createFinalAggregateValue(conf);
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/HDFSFileWriteOperatorDescriptor.java b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/HDFSFileWriteOperatorDescriptor.java
index 2402748..1d9c778 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/HDFSFileWriteOperatorDescriptor.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/HDFSFileWriteOperatorDescriptor.java
@@ -75,14 +75,15 @@
             @Override
             public void open() throws HyracksDataException {
                 rd0 = inputRdFactory == null ? recordDescProvider.getInputRecordDescriptor(getActivityId(), 0)
-                        : inputRdFactory.createRecordDescriptor();
+                        : inputRdFactory.createRecordDescriptor(ctx);
                 frameDeserializer = new FrameDeserializer(ctx.getFrameSize(), rd0);
                 ctxCL = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
                 Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(this.getClass().getClassLoader());
-                conf = confFactory.createConfiguration();
+                conf = confFactory.createConfiguration(ctx);
 
                 VertexOutputFormat outputFormat = BspUtils.createVertexOutputFormat(conf);
                 context = ctxFactory.createContext(conf, partition);
+                context.getConfiguration().setClassLoader(ctx.getJobletContext().getClassLoader());
                 try {
                     vertexWriter = outputFormat.createVertexWriter(context);
                 } catch (InterruptedException e) {
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/MaterializingReadOperatorDescriptor.java b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/MaterializingReadOperatorDescriptor.java
index b1bb555..9a87f02 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/MaterializingReadOperatorDescriptor.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/MaterializingReadOperatorDescriptor.java
@@ -66,14 +66,7 @@
                     } catch (Exception e) {
                         writer.fail();
                         throw new HyracksDataException(e);
-                    } finally {
-                        /**
-                         * remove last iteration's state
-                         */
-                        IterationUtils.removeIterationState(ctx, partition);
-                        writer.close();
                     }
-                    complete = true;
                 }
             }
 
@@ -84,7 +77,12 @@
 
             @Override
             public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
-
+                /**
+                 * remove last iteration's state
+                 */
+                IterationUtils.removeIterationState(ctx, partition);
+                writer.close();
+                complete = true;
             }
         };
     }
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/TerminationStateWriterOperatorDescriptor.java b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/TerminationStateWriterOperatorDescriptor.java
index 88a0dda..f54d176 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/TerminationStateWriterOperatorDescriptor.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/TerminationStateWriterOperatorDescriptor.java
@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public IOperatorNodePushable createPushRuntime(IHyracksTaskContext ctx,
+    public IOperatorNodePushable createPushRuntime(final IHyracksTaskContext ctx,
             IRecordDescriptorProvider recordDescProvider, int partition, int nPartitions) throws HyracksDataException {
         return new AbstractUnaryInputSinkOperatorNodePushable() {
-            private Configuration conf = confFactory.createConfiguration();
+            private Configuration conf = confFactory.createConfiguration(ctx);
             private boolean terminate = true;
 
             @Override
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/VertexFileScanOperatorDescriptor.java b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/VertexFileScanOperatorDescriptor.java
index 0da7baf..343ba7e 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/VertexFileScanOperatorDescriptor.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/VertexFileScanOperatorDescriptor.java
@@ -81,15 +81,12 @@
         final List<FileSplit> splits = splitsFactory.getSplits();
 
         return new AbstractUnaryOutputSourceOperatorNodePushable() {
-            private ClassLoader ctxCL;
             private ContextFactory ctxFactory = new ContextFactory();
 
             @Override
             public void initialize() throws HyracksDataException {
-                ctxCL = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
                 try {
-                    Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(this.getClass().getClassLoader());
-                    Configuration conf = confFactory.createConfiguration();
+                    Configuration conf = confFactory.createConfiguration(ctx);
                     writer.open();
                     for (int i = 0; i < scheduledLocations.length; i++) {
                         if (scheduledLocations[i].equals(ctx.getJobletContext().getApplicationContext().getNodeId())) {
@@ -109,8 +106,6 @@
                     writer.close();
                 } catch (Exception e) {
                     throw new HyracksDataException(e);
-                } finally {
-                    Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(ctxCL);
                 }
             }
 
@@ -135,10 +130,11 @@
                 VertexInputFormat vertexInputFormat = BspUtils.createVertexInputFormat(conf);
                 InputSplit split = splits.get(splitId);
                 TaskAttemptContext mapperContext = ctxFactory.createContext(conf, splitId);
+                mapperContext.getConfiguration().setClassLoader(ctx.getJobletContext().getClassLoader());
 
                 VertexReader vertexReader = vertexInputFormat.createVertexReader(split, mapperContext);
                 vertexReader.initialize(split, mapperContext);
-                Vertex readerVertex = (Vertex) BspUtils.createVertex(conf);
+                Vertex readerVertex = (Vertex) BspUtils.createVertex(mapperContext.getConfiguration());
                 ArrayTupleBuilder tb = new ArrayTupleBuilder(fieldSize);
                 DataOutput dos = tb.getDataOutput();
 
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/VertexWriteOperatorDescriptor.java b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/VertexWriteOperatorDescriptor.java
index d7cbb3a..5da0239 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/VertexWriteOperatorDescriptor.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/VertexWriteOperatorDescriptor.java
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
             @Override
             public void open() throws HyracksDataException {
                 rd0 = inputRdFactory == null ? recordDescProvider.getInputRecordDescriptor(getActivityId(), 0)
-                        : inputRdFactory.createRecordDescriptor();
+                        : inputRdFactory.createRecordDescriptor(ctx);
                 frameDeserializer = new FrameDeserializer(ctx.getFrameSize(), rd0);
                 try {
                     outputWriter = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(splits[partition]
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/base/IConfigurationFactory.java b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/base/IConfigurationFactory.java
index b31f376..2e58196 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/base/IConfigurationFactory.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-dataflow/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/dataflow/base/IConfigurationFactory.java
@@ -18,10 +18,11 @@
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.context.IHyracksTaskContext;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
 
 public interface IConfigurationFactory extends Serializable {
 
-    public Configuration createConfiguration() throws HyracksDataException;
+    public Configuration createConfiguration(IHyracksTaskContext ctx) throws HyracksDataException;
 
 }
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/data/clique2/clique.txt b/pregelix/pregelix-example/data/clique2/clique.txt
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..68fbaea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/data/clique2/clique.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+1 2 3 4
+2 1 3
+3 1 2 4 5
+4 1 3
+5 3 6
+6 5
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/data/clique3/clique.txt b/pregelix/pregelix-example/data/clique3/clique.txt
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..ed0b7c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/data/clique3/clique.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+0 1 19
+1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
+2 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
+3 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9
+4 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9
+5 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9
+6 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9
+7 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9
+8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9
+9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10
+10 9 11
+11 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
+12 11 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
+13 11 12 14 15 16 17 18 19
+14 11 12 13 15 16 17 18 19
+15 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19
+16 11 12 13 14 15 17 18 19
+17 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 19
+18 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19
+19 0 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/pom.xml b/pregelix/pregelix-example/pom.xml
index 37da84f..7ca7e5d 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/pom.xml
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/pom.xml
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
 				<version>2.7.2</version>
 				<configuration>
 					<forkMode>pertest</forkMode>
-					<argLine>-enableassertions -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=300m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
+					<argLine>-enableassertions -Xmx2047m -XX:MaxPermSize=300m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
 						-Djava.util.logging.config.file=src/test/resources/logging.properties</argLine>
 					<includes>
 						<include>**/*TestSuite.java</include>
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/inputformat/TextPageRankInputFormat.java b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/inputformat/TextPageRankInputFormat.java
index a8a752e..8d0b776 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/inputformat/TextPageRankInputFormat.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/inputformat/TextPageRankInputFormat.java
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
     @Override
     public VertexReader<VLongWritable, DoubleWritable, FloatWritable, DoubleWritable> createVertexReader(
             InputSplit split, TaskAttemptContext context) throws IOException {
-        return new TextPageRankGraphReader(textInputFormat.createRecordReader(split, context));
+        return new TextPageRankGraphReader(textInputFormat.createRecordReader(split, context), context);
     }
 }
 
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
     private List<VLongWritable> pool = new ArrayList<VLongWritable>();
     private int used = 0;
 
-    public TextPageRankGraphReader(RecordReader<LongWritable, Text> lineRecordReader) {
+    public TextPageRankGraphReader(RecordReader<LongWritable, Text> lineRecordReader, TaskAttemptContext context) {
         super(lineRecordReader);
     }
 
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/maximalclique/CliquesWritable.java b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/maximalclique/CliquesWritable.java
index 0e22ea1..d2c5e6f 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/maximalclique/CliquesWritable.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/maximalclique/CliquesWritable.java
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 
     private List<VLongWritable> cliques = new ArrayList<VLongWritable>();
     private int sizeOfClique = 0;
+    private VLongWritable srcId = new VLongWritable(0);
 
     public CliquesWritable(List<VLongWritable> cliques, int sizeOfClique) {
         this.cliques = cliques;
@@ -43,6 +44,16 @@
     }
 
     /**
+     * Set the srcId
+     * 
+     * @param srcId
+     *            the source vertex Id
+     */
+    public void setSrcId(VLongWritable srcId) {
+        this.srcId = srcId;
+    }
+
+    /**
      * Set the size of cliques.
      * 
      * @param sizeOfClique
@@ -103,6 +114,11 @@
                 cliques.add(vid);
             }
         }
+
+        if (srcId == null) {
+            srcId = new VLongWritable();
+        }
+        srcId.readFields(input);
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -117,6 +133,8 @@
         for (int i = 0; i < cliques.size(); i++) {
             cliques.get(i).write(output);
         }
+
+        srcId.write(output);
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -126,11 +144,14 @@
         StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
         int numCliques = cliques.size() / sizeOfClique;
         for (int i = 0; i < numCliques; i++) {
+            sb.append(srcId);
+            sb.append(",");
+            int start = i * sizeOfClique;
             for (int j = 0; j < sizeOfClique - 1; j++) {
-                sb.append(cliques.get(j));
+                sb.append(cliques.get(start + j));
                 sb.append(",");
             }
-            sb.append(cliques.get(sizeOfClique - 1));
+            sb.append(cliques.get(start + sizeOfClique - 1));
             sb.append(";");
         }
         return sb.toString();
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/maximalclique/MaximalCliqueVertex.java b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/maximalclique/MaximalCliqueVertex.java
index 266feb7..85a139e 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/maximalclique/MaximalCliqueVertex.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/maximalclique/MaximalCliqueVertex.java
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@
 
 /**
  * The maximal clique example -- find maximal cliques in an undirected graph.
- * The result cliques contains vertexes ordered by the vertex id ascendingly. The algorithm takes
- * advantage of that property to do effective pruning.
+ * The result cliques contains vertexes ordered by the vertex id ascendingly.
+ * The algorithm takes advantage of that property to do effective pruning.
  */
 public class MaximalCliqueVertex extends Vertex<VLongWritable, CliquesWritable, NullWritable, AdjacencyListWritable> {
 
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
     private int largestCliqueSizeSoFar = 0;
     private List<BitSet> currentMaximalCliques = new ArrayList<BitSet>();
     private CliquesWritable tmpValue = new CliquesWritable();
-    private List<VLongWritable> cliques = new ArrayList<VLongWritable>();
+    private List<VLongWritable> cliqueList = new ArrayList<VLongWritable>();
 
     /**
      * Update the current maximal cliques
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@
         vertexList.clear();
         invertedMap.clear();
         currentMaximalCliques.clear();
-        cliques.clear();
         tmpValue.reset();
 
         // build the initial sub graph
@@ -76,8 +75,6 @@
             AdjacencyListWritable adj = values.next();
             map.put(adj.getSource(), adj);
         }
-        VLongWritable srcId = getVertexId();
-        map.put(srcId, new AdjacencyListWritable());
 
         // build the vertex list (vertex id in ascending order) and the inverted list of vertexes
         int i = 0;
@@ -86,12 +83,14 @@
             invertedMap.put(v, i++);
         }
 
-        //clean up adjacency list --- remove vertexes who are not neighbors of key
+        // clean up adjacency list --- remove vertexes who are not neighbors of
+        // key
         for (AdjacencyListWritable adj : map.values()) {
             adj.cleanNonMatch(vertexList);
         }
 
-        // get the h-index of the subgraph --- which is the maximum depth to explore
+        // get the h-index of the subgraph --- which is the maximum depth to
+        // explore
         int[] neighborCounts = new int[map.size()];
         i = 0;
         for (AdjacencyListWritable adj : map.values()) {
@@ -105,11 +104,13 @@
             }
             h++;
         }
-        if (h < largestCliqueSizeSoFar) {
+
+        // the clique size is upper-bounded by h+1
+        if (h + 1 < largestCliqueSizeSoFar) {
             return;
         }
 
-        //start depth-first search
+        // start depth-first search
         BitSet cliqueSoFar = new BitSet(h);
         for (VLongWritable v : vertexList) {
             cliqueSoFar.set(invertedMap.get(v));
@@ -117,16 +118,15 @@
             cliqueSoFar.clear();
         }
 
-        //output local maximal cliques
+        // output local maximal cliques
+        tmpValue.setSrcId(getVertexId());
         for (BitSet clique : currentMaximalCliques) {
-            int keyIndex = invertedMap.get(srcId);
-            clique.set(keyIndex);
             generateClique(clique);
-            tmpValue.addCliques(cliques);
+            tmpValue.addCliques(cliqueList);
             tmpValue.setCliqueSize(clique.cardinality());
         }
 
-        //update the vertex state
+        // update the vertex state
         setVertexValue(tmpValue);
     }
 
@@ -136,13 +136,15 @@
      * @param clique
      *            the bitmap representation of a clique
      */
-    private void generateClique(BitSet clique) {
+    private List<VLongWritable> generateClique(BitSet clique) {
+        cliqueList.clear();
         for (int j = 0; j < clique.length();) {
             j = clique.nextSetBit(j);
             VLongWritable v = vertexList.get(j);
-            cliques.add(v);
+            cliqueList.add(v);
             j++;
         }
+        return cliqueList;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -170,7 +172,7 @@
         while (neighbors.hasNext()) {
             VLongWritable neighbor = neighbors.next();
             if (!isTested(neighbor, cliqueSoFar) && isClique(neighbor, cliqueSoFar)) {
-                //snapshot the clique
+                // snapshot the clique
                 int cliqueLength = cliqueSoFar.length();
                 // expand the clique
                 cliqueSoFar.set(invertedMap.get(neighbor));
@@ -217,7 +219,8 @@
         int largestSetIndex = cliqueSoFar.length() - 1;
         if (index > largestSetIndex) {
             // we only return cliques with vertexes in the ascending order
-            // hence, the new vertex must be larger than the largesetSetIndex in the clique
+            // hence, the new vertex must be larger than the largesetSetIndex in
+            // the clique
             return false;
         } else {
             // otherwise, we think the vertex is "tested"
@@ -236,7 +239,8 @@
      */
     private boolean isClique(VLongWritable newVertex, BitSet cliqueSoFar) {
         AdjacencyListWritable adj = map.get(newVertex);
-        // check whether each existing vertex is in the neighbor set of newVertex
+        // check whether each existing vertex is in the neighbor set of
+        // newVertex
         for (int i = 0; i < cliqueSoFar.length();) {
             i = cliqueSoFar.nextSetBit(i);
             VLongWritable v = vertexList.get(i);
@@ -249,9 +253,8 @@
     }
 
     /**
-     * For superstep 1, send outgoing mesages.
-     * For superstep 2, calculate maximal cliques.
-     * otherwise, vote to halt.
+     * For superstep 1, send outgoing mesages. For superstep 2, calculate
+     * maximal cliques. otherwise, vote to halt.
      */
     @Override
     public void compute(Iterator<AdjacencyListWritable> msgIterator) {
@@ -300,9 +303,11 @@
     private void sendOutgoingMsgs(List<Edge<VLongWritable, NullWritable>> edges) {
         for (int i = 0; i < edges.size(); i++) {
             if (edges.get(i).getDestVertexId().get() < getVertexId().get()) {
-                // only add emit for the vertexes whose id is smaller than the vertex id 
+                // only add emit for the vertexes whose id is smaller than the
+                // vertex id
                 // to avoid the duplicate removal step,
-                // because all the resulting cliques will have vertexes in the ascending order.
+                // because all the resulting cliques will have vertexes in the
+                // ascending order.
                 AdjacencyListWritable msg = new AdjacencyListWritable();
                 msg.setSource(getVertexId());
                 for (int j = i + 1; j < edges.size(); j++) {
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobgen/JobGenerator.java b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobgen/JobGenerator.java
index ca5a1c4..0a5b214 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobgen/JobGenerator.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobgen/JobGenerator.java
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@
     private static String HDFS_OUTPUTPAH2 = "/resultcomplex";
 
     private static String HDFS_INPUTPATH3 = "/clique";
+    private static String HDFS_INPUTPATH4 = "/clique2";
+    private static String HDFS_INPUTPATH5 = "/clique3";
     private static String HDFS_OUTPUTPAH3 = "/resultclique";
 
     private static void generatePageRankJobReal(String jobName, String outputPath) throws IOException {
@@ -218,6 +220,30 @@
         FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(HDFS_OUTPUTPAH3));
         job.getConfiguration().writeXml(new FileOutputStream(new File(outputPath)));
     }
+    
+    private static void generateMaximalCliqueJob2(String jobName, String outputPath) throws IOException {
+        PregelixJob job = new PregelixJob(jobName);
+        job.setVertexClass(MaximalCliqueVertex.class);
+        job.setGlobalAggregatorClass(MaximalCliqueAggregator.class);
+        job.setDynamicVertexValueSize(true);
+        job.setVertexInputFormatClass(TextMaximalCliqueInputFormat.class);
+        job.setVertexOutputFormatClass(MaximalCliqueVertexOutputFormat.class);
+        FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, HDFS_INPUTPATH4);
+        FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(HDFS_OUTPUTPAH3));
+        job.getConfiguration().writeXml(new FileOutputStream(new File(outputPath)));
+    }
+    
+    private static void generateMaximalCliqueJob3(String jobName, String outputPath) throws IOException {
+        PregelixJob job = new PregelixJob(jobName);
+        job.setVertexClass(MaximalCliqueVertex.class);
+        job.setGlobalAggregatorClass(MaximalCliqueAggregator.class);
+        job.setDynamicVertexValueSize(true);
+        job.setVertexInputFormatClass(TextMaximalCliqueInputFormat.class);
+        job.setVertexOutputFormatClass(MaximalCliqueVertexOutputFormat.class);
+        FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, HDFS_INPUTPATH5);
+        FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(HDFS_OUTPUTPAH3));
+        job.getConfiguration().writeXml(new FileOutputStream(new File(outputPath)));
+    }
 
     private static void generateGraphMutationJob(String jobName, String outputPath) throws IOException {
         PregelixJob job = new PregelixJob(jobName);
@@ -261,6 +287,8 @@
 
     private static void genMaximalClique() throws IOException {
         generateMaximalCliqueJob("Maximal Clique", outputBase + "MaximalClique.xml");
+        generateMaximalCliqueJob2("Maximal Clique 2", outputBase + "MaximalClique2.xml");
+        generateMaximalCliqueJob3("Maximal Clique 3", outputBase + "MaximalClique3.xml");
     }
 
     private static void genGraphMutation() throws IOException {
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobrun/RunJobTestCase.java b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobrun/RunJobTestCase.java
index 5a556fa..00f6f54 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobrun/RunJobTestCase.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobrun/RunJobTestCase.java
@@ -25,20 +25,13 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.FileOutputFormat;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
-import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.job.JobSpecification;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.api.job.PregelixJob;
-import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.jobgen.JobGen;
-import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.jobgen.JobGenInnerJoin;
-import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.jobgen.JobGenOuterJoin;
-import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.jobgen.JobGenOuterJoinSingleSort;
-import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.jobgen.JobGenOuterJoinSort;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.base.IDriver.Plan;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.driver.Driver;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.util.PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil;
-import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.dataflow.util.IterationUtils;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.util.TestUtils;
 
 public class RunJobTestCase extends TestCase {
-    private static final String NC1 = "nc1";
-    private static final String HYRACKS_APP_NAME = "pregelix";
     private static String HDFS_INPUTPATH = "/webmap";
     private static String HDFS_OUTPUTPAH = "/result";
 
@@ -48,14 +41,21 @@
     private static String HDFS_INPUTPATH3 = "/clique";
     private static String HDFS_OUTPUTPAH3 = "/resultclique";
 
-    private final PregelixJob job;
-    private JobGen[] giraphJobGens;
-    private final String resultFileName;
-    private final String expectedFileName;
-    private final String jobFile;
+    private static String HDFS_INPUTPATH4 = "/clique2";
+    private static String HDFS_OUTPUTPAH4 = "/resultclique";
 
-    public RunJobTestCase(String hadoopConfPath, String jobName, String jobFile, String resultFile, String expectedFile)
-            throws Exception {
+    private static String HDFS_INPUTPATH5 = "/clique3";
+    private static String HDFS_OUTPUTPAH5 = "/resultclique";
+
+    private final PregelixJob job;
+    private final String resultFileDir;
+    private final String expectedFileDir;
+    private final String jobFile;
+    private final Driver driver = new Driver(this.getClass());
+    private final FileSystem dfs;
+
+    public RunJobTestCase(String hadoopConfPath, String jobName, String jobFile, String resultFile,
+            String expectedFile, FileSystem dfs) throws Exception {
         super("test");
         this.jobFile = jobFile;
         this.job = new PregelixJob("test");
@@ -68,21 +68,20 @@
         } else if (inputPaths[0].toString().endsWith(HDFS_INPUTPATH2)) {
             FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, HDFS_INPUTPATH2);
             FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(HDFS_OUTPUTPAH2));
-        } else {
+        } else if (inputPaths[0].toString().endsWith(HDFS_INPUTPATH3)) {
             FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, HDFS_INPUTPATH3);
             FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(HDFS_OUTPUTPAH3));
+        } else if (inputPaths[0].toString().endsWith(HDFS_INPUTPATH4)) {
+            FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, HDFS_INPUTPATH4);
+            FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(HDFS_OUTPUTPAH4));
+        } else if (inputPaths[0].toString().endsWith(HDFS_INPUTPATH5)) {
+            FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, HDFS_INPUTPATH5);
+            FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(HDFS_OUTPUTPAH5));
         }
         job.setJobName(jobName);
-        this.resultFileName = resultFile;
-        this.expectedFileName = expectedFile;
-        giraphJobGens = new JobGen[4];
-        giraphJobGens[0] = new JobGenOuterJoin(job);
-        waitawhile();
-        giraphJobGens[1] = new JobGenInnerJoin(job);
-        waitawhile();
-        giraphJobGens[2] = new JobGenOuterJoinSort(job);
-        waitawhile();
-        giraphJobGens[3] = new JobGenOuterJoinSingleSort(job);
+        this.resultFileDir = resultFile;
+        this.expectedFileDir = expectedFile;
+        this.dfs = dfs;
     }
 
     private void waitawhile() throws InterruptedException {
@@ -94,89 +93,19 @@
     @Test
     public void test() throws Exception {
         setUp();
-        for (JobGen jobGen : giraphJobGens) {
-            FileSystem dfs = FileSystem.get(job.getConfiguration());
-            dfs.delete(new Path(HDFS_OUTPUTPAH), true);
-            runCreate(jobGen);
-            runDataLoad(jobGen);
-            int i = 1;
-            boolean terminate = false;
-            do {
-                runLoopBodyIteration(jobGen, i);
-                terminate = IterationUtils.readTerminationState(job.getConfiguration(), jobGen.getJobId());
-                i++;
-            } while (!terminate);
-            runIndexScan(jobGen);
-            runHDFSWRite(jobGen);
-            runCleanup(jobGen);
-            compareResults();
+        Plan[] plans = new Plan[] { Plan.OUTER_JOIN };
+        for (Plan plan : plans) {
+            driver.runJob(job, plan, PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.CC_HOST,
+                    PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.TEST_HYRACKS_CC_CLIENT_PORT, false);
         }
+        compareResults();
         tearDown();
         waitawhile();
     }
 
-    private void runCreate(JobGen jobGen) throws Exception {
-        try {
-            JobSpecification treeCreateJobSpec = jobGen.generateCreatingJob();
-            PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.runJob(treeCreateJobSpec, HYRACKS_APP_NAME);
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            throw e;
-        }
-    }
-
-    private void runDataLoad(JobGen jobGen) throws Exception {
-        try {
-            JobSpecification bulkLoadJobSpec = jobGen.generateLoadingJob();
-            PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.runJob(bulkLoadJobSpec, HYRACKS_APP_NAME);
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            throw e;
-        }
-    }
-
-    private void runLoopBodyIteration(JobGen jobGen, int iteration) throws Exception {
-        try {
-            JobSpecification loopBody = jobGen.generateJob(iteration);
-            PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.runJob(loopBody, HYRACKS_APP_NAME);
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            throw e;
-        }
-    }
-
-    private void runIndexScan(JobGen jobGen) throws Exception {
-        try {
-            JobSpecification scanSortPrintJobSpec = jobGen.scanIndexPrintGraph(NC1, resultFileName);
-            PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.runJob(scanSortPrintJobSpec, HYRACKS_APP_NAME);
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            throw e;
-        }
-    }
-
-    private void runHDFSWRite(JobGen jobGen) throws Exception {
-        try {
-            JobSpecification scanSortPrintJobSpec = jobGen.scanIndexWriteGraph();
-            PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.runJob(scanSortPrintJobSpec, HYRACKS_APP_NAME);
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            throw e;
-        }
-    }
-
-    private void runCleanup(JobGen jobGen) throws Exception {
-        try {
-            JobSpecification[] cleanups = jobGen.generateCleanup();
-            runJobArray(cleanups);
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            throw e;
-        }
-    }
-
-    private void runJobArray(JobSpecification[] jobs) throws Exception {
-        for (JobSpecification job : jobs) {
-            PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.runJob(job, HYRACKS_APP_NAME);
-        }
-    }
-
     private void compareResults() throws Exception {
-        TestUtils.compareWithResult(new File(resultFileName), new File(expectedFileName));
+        dfs.copyToLocalFile(FileOutputFormat.getOutputPath(job), new Path(resultFileDir));
+        TestUtils.compareWithResultDir(new File(expectedFileDir), new File(resultFileDir));
     }
 
     public String toString() {
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobrun/RunJobTestSuite.java b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobrun/RunJobTestSuite.java
index 4bf83e6..87bc40d 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobrun/RunJobTestSuite.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobrun/RunJobTestSuite.java
@@ -62,7 +62,12 @@
     private static final String DATA_PATH3 = "data/clique/clique.txt";
     private static final String HDFS_PATH3 = "/clique/";
 
-    private static final String HYRACKS_APP_NAME = "pregelix";
+    private static final String DATA_PATH4 = "data/clique2/clique.txt";
+    private static final String HDFS_PATH4 = "/clique2/";
+
+    private static final String DATA_PATH5 = "data/clique3/clique.txt";
+    private static final String HDFS_PATH5 = "/clique3/";
+
     private static final String HADOOP_CONF_PATH = ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR + File.separator + "conf.xml";
     private MiniDFSCluster dfsCluster;
 
@@ -111,6 +116,16 @@
         dfs.mkdirs(dest);
         dfs.copyFromLocalFile(src, dest);
 
+        src = new Path(DATA_PATH4);
+        dest = new Path(HDFS_PATH4);
+        dfs.mkdirs(dest);
+        dfs.copyFromLocalFile(src, dest);
+
+        src = new Path(DATA_PATH5);
+        dest = new Path(HDFS_PATH5);
+        dfs.mkdirs(dest);
+        dfs.copyFromLocalFile(src, dest);
+
         DataOutputStream confOutput = new DataOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(new File(HADOOP_CONF_PATH)));
         conf.writeXml(confOutput);
         confOutput.flush();
@@ -138,6 +153,7 @@
         RunJobTestSuite testSuite = new RunJobTestSuite();
         testSuite.setUp();
         boolean onlyEnabled = false;
+        FileSystem dfs = FileSystem.get(testSuite.conf);
 
         if (onlys.size() > 0) {
             onlyEnabled = true;
@@ -153,7 +169,7 @@
                     String resultFileName = ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR + File.separator + jobExtToResExt(qFile.getName());
                     String expectedFileName = EXPECTED_RESULT_DIR + File.separator + jobExtToResExt(qFile.getName());
                     testSuite.addTest(new RunJobTestCase(HADOOP_CONF_PATH, qFile.getName(), qFile.getAbsolutePath()
-                            .toString(), resultFileName, expectedFileName));
+                            .toString(), resultFileName, expectedFileName, dfs));
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -193,7 +209,7 @@
 
     private static String jobExtToResExt(String fname) {
         int dot = fname.lastIndexOf('.');
-        return fname.substring(0, dot + 1) + FILE_EXTENSION_OF_RESULTS;
+        return fname.substring(0, dot);
     }
 
     private static boolean isInList(List<String> onlys, String name) {
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/util/TestUtils.java b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/util/TestUtils.java
index d89ec46..d406125 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/util/TestUtils.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/util/TestUtils.java
@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@
 
 public class TestUtils {
 
+    public static void compareWithResultDir(File expectedFileDir, File actualFileDir) throws Exception {
+        String[] fileNames = expectedFileDir.list();
+        for (String fileName : fileNames) {
+            compareWithResult(new File(expectedFileDir, fileName), new File(actualFileDir, fileName));
+        }
+    }
+
     public static void compareWithResult(File expectedFile, File actualFile) throws Exception {
         BufferedReader readerExpected = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(expectedFile));
         BufferedReader readerActual = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(actualFile));
@@ -28,7 +35,6 @@
         try {
             while ((lineExpected = readerExpected.readLine()) != null) {
                 lineActual = readerActual.readLine();
-                // Assert.assertEquals(lineExpected, lineActual);
                 if (lineActual == null) {
                     throw new Exception("Actual result changed at line " + num + ":\n< " + lineExpected + "\n> ");
                 }
@@ -62,8 +68,10 @@
             if (row1.equals(row2))
                 continue;
 
-            String[] fields1 = row1.split(" ");
-            String[] fields2 = row2.split(" ");
+            boolean spaceOrTab = false;
+            spaceOrTab = row1.contains(" ");
+            String[] fields1 = spaceOrTab ? row1.split(" ") : row1.split("\t");
+            String[] fields2 = spaceOrTab ? row2.split(" ") : row2.split("\t");
 
             for (int j = 0; j < fields1.length; j++) {
                 if (fields1[j].equals(fields2[j])) {
@@ -76,7 +84,7 @@
                     float float1 = (float) double1.doubleValue();
                     float float2 = (float) double2.doubleValue();
 
-                    if (Math.abs(float1 - float2) == 0)
+                    if (Math.abs(float1 - float2) < 1.0e-7)
                         continue;
                     else {
                         return false;
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/cluster/stores.properties b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/cluster/stores.properties
index daf881e..04732be 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/cluster/stores.properties
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/cluster/stores.properties
@@ -1 +1 @@
-store=teststore
\ No newline at end of file
+store=teststore1,teststore2
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsReal.result b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsReal.result
deleted file mode 100644
index 45376e2..0000000
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsReal.result
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsReal/part-0 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsReal/part-0
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f1f1d9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsReal/part-0
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+0	0
+4	0
+8	0
+12	0
+16	0
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsReal/part-1 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsReal/part-1
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..0fa02c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsReal/part-1
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+1	0
+5	0
+9	0
+13	0
+17	0
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsReal/part-2 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsReal/part-2
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..542ccae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsReal/part-2
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+2	0
+6	0
+10	0
+14	0
+18	0
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsReal/part-3 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsReal/part-3
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..1d5d6d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsReal/part-3
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+3	0
+7	0
+11	0
+15	0
+19	0
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsRealComplex.result b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsRealComplex.result
deleted file mode 100644
index dbc30fc..0000000
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsRealComplex.result
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsRealComplex/part-0 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsRealComplex/part-0
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f1f1d9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsRealComplex/part-0
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+0	0
+4	0
+8	0
+12	0
+16	0
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsRealComplex/part-1 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsRealComplex/part-1
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..4e7d87a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsRealComplex/part-1
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+1	0
+5	0
+9	0
+13	0
+17	0
+21	21
+25	25
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsRealComplex/part-2 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsRealComplex/part-2
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..542ccae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsRealComplex/part-2
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+2	0
+6	0
+10	0
+14	0
+18	0
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsRealComplex/part-3 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsRealComplex/part-3
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..513f3ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsRealComplex/part-3
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+3	0
+7	0
+11	0
+15	0
+19	0
+27	27
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/GraphMutation.result b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/GraphMutation.result
deleted file mode 100644
index a30166c..0000000
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/GraphMutation.result
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-1 0.0
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-7 0.0
-11 0.0
-13 0.0
-17 0.0
-19 0.0
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-500 0.0
-700 0.0
-1100 0.0
-1300 0.0
-1700 0.0
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/GraphMutation/part-0 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/GraphMutation/part-0
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b5f7ed3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/GraphMutation/part-0
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+100	0.0
+500	0.0
+700	0.0
+1100	0.0
+1300	0.0
+1700	0.0
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/GraphMutation/part-1 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/GraphMutation/part-1
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..4eca51d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/GraphMutation/part-1
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+1	0.0
+5	0.0
+13	0.0
+17	0.0
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/GraphMutation/part-2 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/GraphMutation/part-2
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..e69de29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/GraphMutation/part-2
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/GraphMutation/part-3 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/GraphMutation/part-3
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..9446ff7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/GraphMutation/part-3
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+7	0.0
+11	0.0
+19	0.0
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique.result b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique.result
deleted file mode 100644
index d238037..0000000
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique.result
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-1 1,2,3,4;
-2 2,3,4;
-3 
-4 
-5 
-6 
-7 
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique/part-0 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique/part-0
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..902fadf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique/part-0
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+4	
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique/part-1 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique/part-1
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..ba34424
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique/part-1
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+1	1,2,3,4;
+5	
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique/part-2 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique/part-2
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..834e389
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique/part-2
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+2	2,3,4;
+6	
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique/part-3 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique/part-3
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b8e2461
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique/part-3
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+3	3,4;
+7	
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique2/part-0 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique2/part-0
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..902fadf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique2/part-0
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+4	
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique2/part-1 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique2/part-1
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b83e1a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique2/part-1
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+1	1,2,3;1,3,4;
+5	
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique2/part-2 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique2/part-2
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..45e2a23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique2/part-2
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+2	2,3;
+6	
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique2/part-3 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique2/part-3
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..447aa38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique2/part-3
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3	3,4;3,5;
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique3/part-0 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique3/part-0
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b4dced4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique3/part-0
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+0	0,19;
+4	4,5,6,7,8,9;
+8	
+12	12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19;
+16	
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique3/part-1 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique3/part-1
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f554dfe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique3/part-1
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+1	1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9;
+5	
+9	
+13	
+17	
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique3/part-2 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique3/part-2
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..4df9b8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique3/part-2
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+2	2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9;
+6	
+10	
+14	
+18	
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique3/part-3 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique3/part-3
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..5131560
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique3/part-3
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+3	3,4,5,6,7,8,9;
+7	
+11	11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19;
+15	
+19	
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRank.result b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRank.result
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index 9c4d83a..0000000
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRank.result
+++ /dev/null
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRank/part-0 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRank/part-0
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..5b07add
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRank/part-0
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRank/part-1 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRank/part-1
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..caf8a4c
--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRank/part-2 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRank/part-2
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..29a9d52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRank/part-2
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRank/part-3 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRank/part-3
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..c9bfeb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRank/part-3
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+3	0.08125113985998214
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+27	0.012542224114863661
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankReal.result b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankReal.result
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index 6432eda..0000000
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankReal.result
+++ /dev/null
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankReal/part-0 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankReal/part-0
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..383076e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankReal/part-0
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankReal/part-1 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankReal/part-1
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..0b1a38c
--- /dev/null
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankReal/part-2 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankReal/part-2
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..ec995b2
--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankReal/part-3 b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankReal/part-3
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..edb7484
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankReal/part-3
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankRealComplex.result b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankRealComplex.result
deleted file mode 100644
index 2bd09e1..0000000
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankRealComplex.result
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
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-#cc.bootstrap.class=edu.uci.ics.asterix.hyracks.bootstrap.CCBootstrapImpl
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><configuration>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.nameserver</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-administer-jobs</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hsftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HsftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.input.dir</name><value>file:/clique2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.submit.replication</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/namesecondary</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.type</name><value>RECORD</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.merge.percent</name><value>0.66</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.java.opts</name><value>-Xmx200m</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-submit-job</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>keep.failed.task.files</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.job.history.block.size</name><value>3145728</value></property>
+<property><name>io.bytes.per.checksum</name><value>512</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.report.address</name><value>127.0.0.1:0</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.util.hash.type</name><value>murmur</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hdfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ramfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.InMemoryFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.restart.recover</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.period</name><value>3600</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.tmp</name><value>./tmp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacekill</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>map.sort.class</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.util.QuickSort</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connection.maxidletime</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.dir</name><value>/resultclique</value></property>
+<property><name>io.map.index.skip</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.expiry.interval</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compress</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.lazydecompress</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.parallel.copies</name><value>5</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reduce.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.name</name><value>Maximal Clique 2</value></property>
+<property><name>local.cache.size</name><value>10737418240</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3n.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native.NativeS3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.limit.kb</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.file.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50060</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.timeout</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.kfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.kfs.KosmosFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.blacklists</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.buffer.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/s3</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.dir</name><value>/jobtracker/jobsInfo</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.kill.max</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.record.percent</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.security.authorization</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.failures</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobQueueTaskScheduler</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.interface</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.hours</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.sleepTimeSeconds</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.default.name</name><value>file:///</value></property>
+<property><name>tasktracker.http.threads</name><value>40</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.taskmemorymanager.monitoring-interval</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.default</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.StandardSocketFactory</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.node.switch.mapping.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.ScriptBasedMapping</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.maximalclique.MaximalCliqueVertex</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.max.skip.groups</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>io.file.buffer.size</name><value>4096</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.maxtasks.per.job</name><value>-1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.indexcache.mb</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl.disable.cache</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.maps</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.native.lib</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.block.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reuse.jvm.num.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50030</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>io.compression.codecs</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.BZip2Codec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.70</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.compress.blocksize</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.names</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.HarFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.error.rate</name><value>0.005</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker</name><value>local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.skip.checksum.errors</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.maxRetries</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.listen.queue.size</name><value>128</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.trash.interval</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacestart</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.S3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.sorter.recordlimit</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.size</name><value>1048576</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.mb</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.factor</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.interval</name><value>30000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.procfsbasedprocesstree.sleeptime-before-sigkill</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.completeuserjobs.maximum</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.reduces</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>webinterface.private.actions</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.tmp.dir</name><value>/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.attempts.to.start.skipping</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.temp.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/temp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.merge.recordsBeforeProgress</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.compress.map.output</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.spill.percent</name><value>0.80</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.edits.dir</name><value>${fs.checkpoint.dir}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.retain.hours</name><value>24</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.system.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/system</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.line.input.format.linespermap</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.attempts</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.idlethreshold</name><value>4000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexOutputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.maximalclique.MaximalCliqueVertex$MaximalCliqueVertexOutputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.copy.backoff</name><value>300</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.inmem.merge.threshold</name><value>1000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.size</name><value>10000000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexInputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.maximalclique.TextMaximalCliqueInputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.aggregatorClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.maximalclique.MaximalCliqueAggregator</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.queue.name</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.active</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.incStateLength</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.slowstart.completed.maps</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.script.number.args</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.max.skip.records</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.ftp.FTPFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.cache.levels</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.handler.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>io.serializations</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.WritableSerialization</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connect.max.retries</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.min.split.size</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>jobclient.output.filter</name><value>FAILED</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.acls.enabled</name><value>false</value></property>
+</configuration>
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/MaximalClique3.xml b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/MaximalClique3.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d4f81ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/MaximalClique3.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><configuration>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.nameserver</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-administer-jobs</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hsftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HsftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.input.dir</name><value>file:/clique3</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.submit.replication</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/namesecondary</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.type</name><value>RECORD</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.merge.percent</name><value>0.66</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.java.opts</name><value>-Xmx200m</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-submit-job</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>keep.failed.task.files</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.job.history.block.size</name><value>3145728</value></property>
+<property><name>io.bytes.per.checksum</name><value>512</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.report.address</name><value>127.0.0.1:0</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.util.hash.type</name><value>murmur</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hdfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ramfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.InMemoryFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.restart.recover</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.period</name><value>3600</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.tmp</name><value>./tmp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacekill</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>map.sort.class</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.util.QuickSort</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connection.maxidletime</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.dir</name><value>/resultclique</value></property>
+<property><name>io.map.index.skip</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.expiry.interval</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compress</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.lazydecompress</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.parallel.copies</name><value>5</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reduce.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.name</name><value>Maximal Clique 3</value></property>
+<property><name>local.cache.size</name><value>10737418240</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3n.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native.NativeS3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.limit.kb</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.file.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50060</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.timeout</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.kfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.kfs.KosmosFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.blacklists</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.buffer.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/s3</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.dir</name><value>/jobtracker/jobsInfo</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.kill.max</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.record.percent</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.security.authorization</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.failures</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobQueueTaskScheduler</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.interface</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.hours</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.sleepTimeSeconds</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.default.name</name><value>file:///</value></property>
+<property><name>tasktracker.http.threads</name><value>40</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.taskmemorymanager.monitoring-interval</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.default</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.StandardSocketFactory</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.node.switch.mapping.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.ScriptBasedMapping</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.maximalclique.MaximalCliqueVertex</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.max.skip.groups</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>io.file.buffer.size</name><value>4096</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.maxtasks.per.job</name><value>-1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.indexcache.mb</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl.disable.cache</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.maps</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.native.lib</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.block.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reuse.jvm.num.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50030</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>io.compression.codecs</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.BZip2Codec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.70</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.compress.blocksize</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.names</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.HarFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.error.rate</name><value>0.005</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker</name><value>local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.skip.checksum.errors</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.maxRetries</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.listen.queue.size</name><value>128</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.trash.interval</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacestart</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.S3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.sorter.recordlimit</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.size</name><value>1048576</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.mb</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.factor</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.interval</name><value>30000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.procfsbasedprocesstree.sleeptime-before-sigkill</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.completeuserjobs.maximum</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.reduces</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>webinterface.private.actions</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.tmp.dir</name><value>/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.attempts.to.start.skipping</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.temp.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/temp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.merge.recordsBeforeProgress</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.compress.map.output</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.spill.percent</name><value>0.80</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.edits.dir</name><value>${fs.checkpoint.dir}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.retain.hours</name><value>24</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.system.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/system</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.line.input.format.linespermap</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.attempts</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.idlethreshold</name><value>4000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexOutputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.maximalclique.MaximalCliqueVertex$MaximalCliqueVertexOutputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.copy.backoff</name><value>300</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.inmem.merge.threshold</name><value>1000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.size</name><value>10000000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexInputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.maximalclique.TextMaximalCliqueInputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.aggregatorClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.maximalclique.MaximalCliqueAggregator</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.queue.name</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.active</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.incStateLength</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.slowstart.completed.maps</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.script.number.args</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.max.skip.records</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.ftp.FTPFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.cache.levels</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.handler.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>io.serializations</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.WritableSerialization</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connect.max.retries</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.min.split.size</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>jobclient.output.filter</name><value>FAILED</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.acls.enabled</name><value>false</value></property>
+</configuration>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/function/ComputeUpdateFunctionFactory.java b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/function/ComputeUpdateFunctionFactory.java
index 0c09757..0a0a14f 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/function/ComputeUpdateFunctionFactory.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/function/ComputeUpdateFunctionFactory.java
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
             @Override
             public void open(IHyracksTaskContext ctx, RecordDescriptor rd, IFrameWriter... writers)
                     throws HyracksDataException {
-                this.conf = confFactory.createConfiguration();
+                this.conf = confFactory.createConfiguration(ctx);
                 this.dynamicStateLength = BspUtils.getDynamicVertexValueSize(conf);
                 this.aggregator = BspUtils.createGlobalAggregator(conf);
                 this.aggregator.init();
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/function/StartComputeUpdateFunctionFactory.java b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/function/StartComputeUpdateFunctionFactory.java
index 1bf6a2b..9998205 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/function/StartComputeUpdateFunctionFactory.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/function/StartComputeUpdateFunctionFactory.java
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
             @Override
             public void open(IHyracksTaskContext ctx, RecordDescriptor rd, IFrameWriter... writers)
                     throws HyracksDataException {
-                this.conf = confFactory.createConfiguration();
+                this.conf = confFactory.createConfiguration(ctx);
                 this.dynamicStateLength = BspUtils.getDynamicVertexValueSize(conf);
                 this.aggregator = BspUtils.createGlobalAggregator(conf);
                 this.aggregator.init();
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/simpleagg/AccumulatingAggregatorFactory.java b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/simpleagg/AccumulatingAggregatorFactory.java
index 8f63b6e..851a83a 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/simpleagg/AccumulatingAggregatorFactory.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/simpleagg/AccumulatingAggregatorFactory.java
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
     @Override
-    public IAggregatorDescriptor createAggregator(IHyracksTaskContext ctx, RecordDescriptor inRecordDesc,
+    public IAggregatorDescriptor createAggregator(final IHyracksTaskContext ctx, RecordDescriptor inRecordDesc,
             RecordDescriptor outRecordDescriptor, int[] aggKeys, int[] partialKeys) throws HyracksDataException {
 
         return new IAggregatorDescriptor() {
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
                 for (int i = 0; i < agg.length; i++) {
                     aggOutput[i] = new ArrayBackedValueStorage();
                     try {
-                        agg[i] = aggFactories[i].createAggregateFunction(aggOutput[i]);
+                        agg[i] = aggFactories[i].createAggregateFunction(ctx, aggOutput[i]);
                     } catch (Exception e) {
                         throw new IllegalStateException(e);
                     }
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/simpleagg/AggregationFunction.java b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/simpleagg/AggregationFunction.java
index 1813dcc..3cf46a2 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/simpleagg/AggregationFunction.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/simpleagg/AggregationFunction.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparable;
 
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.comm.IFrameTupleAccessor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.context.IHyracksTaskContext;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.util.ByteBufferInputStream;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.accessors.FrameTupleReference;
@@ -53,9 +54,9 @@
     private MsgList msgList = new MsgList();
     private boolean keyRead = false;
 
-    public AggregationFunction(IConfigurationFactory confFactory, DataOutput output, boolean isFinalStage,
-            boolean partialAggAsInput) throws HyracksDataException {
-        this.conf = confFactory.createConfiguration();
+    public AggregationFunction(IHyracksTaskContext ctx, IConfigurationFactory confFactory, DataOutput output,
+            boolean isFinalStage, boolean partialAggAsInput) throws HyracksDataException {
+        this.conf = confFactory.createConfiguration(ctx);
         this.output = output;
         this.isFinalStage = isFinalStage;
         this.partialAggAsInput = partialAggAsInput;
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/simpleagg/AggregationFunctionFactory.java b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/simpleagg/AggregationFunctionFactory.java
index a09f688..7ce9e1d 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/simpleagg/AggregationFunctionFactory.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/simpleagg/AggregationFunctionFactory.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 import java.io.DataOutput;
 
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.context.IHyracksTaskContext;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksException;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.data.std.api.IDataOutputProvider;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.dataflow.base.IConfigurationFactory;
@@ -36,8 +37,9 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public IAggregateFunction createAggregateFunction(IDataOutputProvider provider) throws HyracksException {
+    public IAggregateFunction createAggregateFunction(IHyracksTaskContext ctx, IDataOutputProvider provider)
+            throws HyracksException {
         DataOutput output = provider.getDataOutput();
-        return new AggregationFunction(confFactory, output, isFinalStage, partialAggAsInput);
+        return new AggregationFunction(ctx, confFactory, output, isFinalStage, partialAggAsInput);
     }
 }
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/util/DatatypeHelper.java b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/touchpoint/DatatypeHelper.java
similarity index 98%
rename from pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/util/DatatypeHelper.java
rename to pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/touchpoint/DatatypeHelper.java
index ee319c6..f9085c4 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/core/util/DatatypeHelper.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/touchpoint/DatatypeHelper.java
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  * limitations under the License.
  */
-package edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.util;
+package edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint;
 
 import java.io.DataInput;
 import java.io.DataOutput;
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
                 throw new HyracksDataException(e);
             }
         }
+
     }
 
     @SuppressWarnings({ "rawtypes", "unchecked" })
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/touchpoint/PreSuperStepRuntimeHookFactory.java b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/touchpoint/PreSuperStepRuntimeHookFactory.java
index 5f0ed9e..850ae1e 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/touchpoint/PreSuperStepRuntimeHookFactory.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/touchpoint/PreSuperStepRuntimeHookFactory.java
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 
             @Override
             public void configure(IHyracksTaskContext ctx) throws HyracksDataException {
-                Configuration conf = confFactory.createConfiguration();
+                Configuration conf = confFactory.createConfiguration(ctx);
                 IterationUtils.setProperties(giraphJobId, ctx, conf);
             }
 
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/touchpoint/RuntimeHookFactory.java b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/touchpoint/RuntimeHookFactory.java
index c025f85..05b1542 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/touchpoint/RuntimeHookFactory.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/touchpoint/RuntimeHookFactory.java
@@ -44,9 +44,10 @@
 
             @Override
             public void configure(IHyracksTaskContext ctx) throws HyracksDataException {
-                Configuration conf = confFactory.createConfiguration();
+                Configuration conf = confFactory.createConfiguration(ctx);
                 try {
                     TaskAttemptContext mapperContext = ctxFactory.createContext(conf, new TaskAttemptID());
+                    mapperContext.getConfiguration().setClassLoader(ctx.getJobletContext().getClassLoader());
                     Vertex.setContext(mapperContext);
                     BspUtils.setDefaultConfiguration(conf);
                 } catch (Exception e) {
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/touchpoint/VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory.java b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/touchpoint/VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory.java
index 5eff497..5b4b1f0 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/touchpoint/VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/touchpoint/VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory.java
@@ -24,20 +24,22 @@
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.ITuplePartitionComputerFactory;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.util.ByteBufferInputStream;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.dataflow.std.base.ISerializerDeserializerFactory;
 
 public class VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory<K extends Writable, V extends Writable> implements
         ITuplePartitionComputerFactory {
     private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
-    private final ISerializerDeserializer<K> keyIO;
+    private final ISerializerDeserializerFactory<K> keyIOFactory;
 
-    public VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory(ISerializerDeserializer<K> keyIO) {
-        this.keyIO = keyIO;
+    public VertexIdPartitionComputerFactory(ISerializerDeserializerFactory<K> keyIOFactory) {
+        this.keyIOFactory = keyIOFactory;
     }
 
     public ITuplePartitionComputer createPartitioner() {
         return new ITuplePartitionComputer() {
             private final ByteBufferInputStream bbis = new ByteBufferInputStream();
             private final DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(bbis);
+            private final ISerializerDeserializer<K> keyIO = keyIOFactory.getSerializerDeserializer();
 
             public int partition(IFrameTupleAccessor accessor, int tIndex, int nParts) throws HyracksDataException {
                 int keyStart = accessor.getTupleStartOffset(tIndex) + accessor.getFieldSlotsLength()
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/touchpoint/WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory.java b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/touchpoint/WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..96f781c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-runtime/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/runtime/touchpoint/WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory.java
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+package edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;
+
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.ISerializerDeserializer;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.dataflow.std.base.ISerializerDeserializerFactory;
+
+public class WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory<T extends Writable> implements ISerializerDeserializerFactory<T> {
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+    private final Class<T> clazz;
+
+    public WritableSerializerDeserializerFactory(Class<T> clazz) {
+        this.clazz = clazz;
+    }
+
+    @SuppressWarnings({ "rawtypes", "unchecked" })
+    @Override
+    public ISerializerDeserializer getSerializerDeserializer() {
+        return DatatypeHelper.createSerializerDeserializer(clazz);
+    }
+}