Changes for next gen group communication

Contains necessary changes for next gen group communication primitives.
We allow the notion of arbitrary number of named communication groups
containing an arbitrary number of named operators. Supports a simple API
to get topology changes & update the topology. Also supports a simple
ramp-up mode by specifying the minimum number of tasks in a
communication group.
With guava 17, I get an  java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access method com.google.common.base.Stopwatch.<init>()V from class org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileInputFormat
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileInputFormat.getSplits(FileInputFormat.java:303)