Today I presented Orchestra at Yahoo! Research in Santa Clara. Ganesh hooked me up with Sriram Rao at Yahoo! Research, who kindly invited me to give a talk in front of their Cloud Platforms team. I received some very interesting feedback that will help us in further improving Orchestra design and extending its reach.
Mike Burrows, "The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems," OSDI, 2006. [PDF]
Summary
Chubby provides coarse-grained locking and reliable small-file storage for loosely-coupled distributed systems running in Google datacenters. The primary use case of Chubby is leader election in Google File System (GFS) and BigTable. However, over time, developers have used Chubby to implement … Continue Reading ››
Seth Gilbert, Nancy Lynch, "Brewer’s Conjecture and the Feasibility of Consistent, Available, Partition-Tolerant Web Services," ACM SIGACT News, Volume 33 Issue 2 (2002), pg. 51-59. [PDF]
Summary
In this PODC 2000 keynote speech, Eric Brewer claimed that it is impossible for a distributed system to provide the following three guarantees simultaneously:
Armando Fox, Steven D. Gribble, Yatin Chawathe, Eric A. Brewer, Paul Gauthier, "Cluster-Based Scalable Network Services," Sixteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), (October, 1997). [PDF]
Summary
This paper identifies scalability (elasticity), availability, and cost effectiveness as the three fundamental requirements of cluster computing. It proposes a layered architecture that separates high-level policies from actual … Continue Reading ››
Matei Zaharia, Benjamin Hindman, Andy Konwinski, Ali Ghodsi, Anthony D. Joseph, Randy Katz, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, "The Datacenter Needs an Operating System," USENIX HotCloud, (June, 2011). [PDF]
John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, "Graphic Processing Units (GPUs)," Chapter 4, Computer Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Quantitative Approach, 2011. [LINK]
Mark D. Hill, Michael R. Marty, "Amdahl's Law in the Multicore Era," IEEE Computer, (July, 2008). [PDF]
H. Howie Huang, Shan Li, Alex Szalay, Andreas Terzis, "Performance Modeling and Analysis of … Continue Reading ››
RAD Lab, "Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing," UC Berkeley Technical Report UCB/EECS 2009-28, 2009. [PDF]
Summary
The term 'Cloud Computing' has been in extensive use for last few years to suit many different, often unrelated, needs. This report tries to define what Cloud Computing might mean by identifying its characteristics … Continue Reading ››
Luiz Andre Barroso and Urs Holzle, "The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines," Chapters 1-4 and 7, Morgan & Claypool Publishers. [PDF]
Summary
With the advent of large Internet service providers (e.g., Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!), clusters full of commodity machines are becoming increasingly common. The authors of this … Continue Reading ››
After a long Summer that included an internship at MSR Redmond/Bing, attending SIGCOMM in Toronto, and a trip to Bangladesh, I'm back in Berkeley again. Time to work!
This summer I worked with Dave Maltz and Lijiang Fang at MSR/Bing on a datacenter-related problem.
I'm attending my second SIGCOMM and had the privilege of giving my first talk at the flagship networking conference. I presented Orchestra, which happened to be very well attended even though it was the last talk of the day at 6PM. I'd like to thank everyone for showing up and also for the lively … Continue Reading ››