This is a page where anybody in the class can post links to articles about interesting distributed systems.
- Google release a video about their data centers
- Microsoft released information as well.
- Here's something relevant to yesterday's discussion of LinkedIn's architecture. I can't tell how recent a development it is, but it was just posted on the "news" page of codeproject.com.
http://project-voldemort.com/
- Jeff Dean's lecture on evolution of Google architecture that Prof Swift talked about the other day.
Topic: Challenges in building large-scale Information Retrieval Systems
Link: http://videolectures.net/wsdm09_dean_cblirs/
- Systems that use idle storage instead of CPU:
- 3/24/2011 Trinity is a distributed graph database by Microsoft.
- 4/7/2011 "10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud"
Genentech commissions (or is talked into) high throughput computing using Condor in the cloud!
- 4/12/2011 "Inside Ten of the World’s Largest Data Centers"
Primarily just pictures, but interesting to note the variety.
