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SUMMARY:The CamCube project: Rethinking the data center cluster - Ant Rows
 tron (MSR Cambridge)
DTSTART:20101125T160000Z
DTEND:20101125T170000Z
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CONTACT:Eiko Yoneki
DESCRIPTION:Why do we build data center clusters in the way that we do? I 
 will describe some of the work we are currently doing in the CamCube proje
 ct which aims to build\, from the ground up\, a new data center cluster ar
 chitecture designed to make it easier to create the large-scale services r
 un on these clusters. CamCube liberally borrows ideas from high performanc
 e computing\, distributed systems and networking and represents a very dif
 ferent design point that blatantly violates many accepted norms of data ce
 nter cluster architecture. The talk will motivate the design choices\, inc
 luding the use of a direct connect network and a new network stack. In ord
 er to demonstrate the potential of CamCube\,  we will describe and show re
 sults for a MapReduce-like service\, that provides significantly better pe
 rformance when run on CamCube compared to a traditional cluster.\n\nBio: F
 or the last 11 or so years Ant Rowstron has been working as a researcher a
 t Microsoft Research in Cambridge\, UK where he is now a Principal Researc
 her and co-leads the Systems and Networking Group. His research interests 
 are broad\, covering the spectrum of systems\, distributed systems and net
 working\, but he is best known for his work on structured overlays and dis
 tributed hash tables. Prior to that he worked as a Research Associate and 
 then a Senior Research Associate in Andy Hopper's group in the CL/Engineer
 ing Department. \n
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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