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Technical report on Spark is available Online

July 26, 2011 Mosharaf Leave a comment

A technical report describing the key concepts behind Spark is available online. The abstract goes below:

We present Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs), a distributed memory abstraction that allows programmers to perform in-memory computations on large clusters while retaining the fault tolerance of data flow models like MapReduce. RDDs are motivated by two types of applications … Continue Reading ››

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Spark’s in the wild

May 26, 2011 Mosharaf 1 Comment

We have been working on the Spark cluster computing framework for last couple of years. It has always been open source under the BSD license in github. But yesterday Matei declared official launch of the spark website (spark-project.org) and mailing lists along with its 0.2 release to everyone during the AMPLab summer retreat … Continue Reading ››

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Extended version of ViNEYard has been accepted in IEEE/ACM ToN

May 16, 2011 Mosharaf Leave a comment

An extended, updated, and emended version of our ViNEYard paper in INFOCOM'09 has been accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking after yearlong multiple rounds of reviews. Since there is normally a long queue for actually getting an accepted ToN paper printed, its hard to tell when ours will officially be out there. … Continue Reading ››

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Presented Orchestra at LBNL

May 10, 2011 Mosharaf Leave a comment

Today I presented Orchestra for the first time in front of a crowd outside our lab. Taghrid Samak kindly invited me at LBNL's Computing Sciences Seminar after we caught up over lunch last week, after a year. She is currently a post-doc fellow with the Advance Computing for Science group. Overall, the talk went very … Continue Reading ››

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Orchestra has been accepted at SIGCOMM’2011

April 29, 2011 Mosharaf 6 Comments

Update: Camera-ready version of the paper ~~should be~~ can be found in the publications page ~~very soon~~!

Our paper "Managing Data Transfers in Computer Clusters with Orchestra" has been accepted at SIGCOMM'2011. This is a joint work with Matei, Justin, and professors Mike Jordan and Ion Stoica. The project started as part of Continue Reading ››

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MSR Cambridge, here I come!

May 21, 2010 Mosharaf 1 Comment

I'm going to spend this Summer in stealth mode at Microsoft Research, Cambridge working with Christos Gkantsidis and Hitesh Ballani on a super-secret project. Hopefully, we'll have some cool results on a hot topic. This will be my first time in England/UK as well. Looking forward to the English weather that I've heard so much about! … Continue Reading ››

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PolyViNE has been accepted at VISA’2010

May 18, 2010 Mosharaf 1 Comment

Our paper, "PolyViNE: Policy-based Virtual Network Embedding Across Multiple Domains" is set to appear in VISA'2010 workshop (with SIGCOMM'2010) in New Delhi. I worked on it during my last few months in Waterloo (circa Winter/Spring 2009), and it has been lying around ever since because everyone had been busy. Finally, its going to wake up … Continue Reading ››

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Berkeley computer science networking Prelim reading list (Spring’10)

May 11, 2010 Mosharaf 1 Comment

Somehow I never managed to upload the reading list after I finished my Prelim. Here it is finally, or they are - too many of them (not my fault). This zipped file contains reading lists for the grad networking/network security courses from different years along with the grandfather of all reading lists for networking prelim … Continue Reading ››

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Spark short paper has been accepted at HotCloud’10

May 8, 2010 Mosharaf 1 Comment

An initial overview of our ongoing work on Spark, an iterative and interactive framework for cluster computing, has been accepted at HotCloud'10. I've been joined the project last February, while Matei has been working on it since last Fall. I will have uploaded the paper in the publications page. once … Continue Reading ››

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Prelim, begone, I will have no more of thee!

February 7, 2010 Mosharaf Leave a comment

Update: I've finally uploaded the reading list. Here it is!

Took the networking Prelim last Thursday and passed. I was a never fan of oral interrogations; heck, I am not a fan of any interrogation for that matter. And this one was really a close call; I am just happy to reach alive at … Continue Reading ››