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CIEL: a universal execution engine for distributed data-flow computing

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Derek Murray (University of Cambridge)
Thursday 24 March 2011, 16:00-17:00
FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Eiko Yoneki .

This paper introduces CIEL , a universal execution engine for distributed data-flow programs. Like previous execution engines, CIEL masks the complexity of distributed programming. Unlike those systems, a CIEL job can make data-dependent control-flow decisions, which enables it to compute iterative and recursive algorithms. We have also developed Skywriting, a Turingcomplete scripting language that runs directly on CIEL . The execution engine provides transparent fault tolerance and distribution to Skywriting scripts and highperformance code written in other programming languages. We have deployed CIEL on a cloud computing platform, and demonstrate that it achieves scalable performance for both iterative and non-iterative algorithms.

The paper is at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~dgm36/publications/2011-murray2011ciel.pdf.

This is a practice talk for NSDI 2011 (http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi11/index.html).

This talk is part of the Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar series.