sdi/istc seminar · alluxio, formerly tachyon, is an open source memory speed virtual distributed...

SDI/ISTC Seminar

Jiří ŠimšaAlluxio

Jiří is a software

engineer at Alluxio, Inc. and

one of the top committers

and a project management

committee member of the Alluxio open source project. Prior to working on

Alluxio, he was a software engineer at Google, where he worked on a

framework for the Internet of Things. Jiri is a CMU and PDL alumnus, earning a

PhD for his work on automated testing of concurrent systems under the

guidance of professors Garth Gibson and Randy Bryant. He is a big fan of the

Pittsburgh Penguins.

Alluxio: A Memory-Speed Virtual Distributed Storage System

Alluxio, formerly Tachyon, is an open source memory speed virtual distributed storage system. In this talk, I will first introduce the Alluxio project and then describe the Alluxio architecture, focusing on two of its distinguishing features: tiered storage and unified namespace. Tiered storage provides applications running on top of Alluxio with the ability to store data in local storage tiers (memory, SSDs, and hard drives), transparently managing data based on pluggable policies. Unified namespace provides applications running on top of Alluxio with the ability to access data from heterogenous set of remote storage systems (such as HDFS, S3, or GCS) through the same API and namespace.

TUESDAYSeptember 20, 2016

RMCIC 4th Floor Panther Hollow Room

12:00 - 1:00 pm

VISITOR COORDINATOR: Karen Lindenfelserkaren@ece.cmu.edu

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