Cluster management at Google

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• John Wilkes (Google)
• Thursday 18 April 2013, 14:00-15:00
• LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

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Abstract: Cluster management is the term that Google uses to describe how we control the computing infrastructure in our datacenters that supports almost all of our external services. It includes allocating resources to different applications on our fleet of computers, looking after software installations and hardware, monitoring, and many other things. My goal is to present an overview of some of these systems, introduce the new cluster-manager tool we are building, and present some of the challenges that we’re facing along the way. Many of these challenges represent research opportunities, so I’ll spend the majority of the time discussing those.

Bio: John Wilkes has been at Google since 2008, where he is working on cluster management and infrastructure services. He is interested in far too many aspects of distributed systems, but a recurring theme has been technologies that allow systems to manage themselves. In his spare time he continues, stubbornly, trying to learn how to blow glass.

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

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