[Nets-seminars] Distinguished Lecture: John Wilkes, Google, Wed 18 Nov, 2 PM

Brad Karp bkarp at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Tue Nov 17 00:25:12 GMT 2015


Greetings, everyone.

It’s my pleasure to announce that John Wilkes, an eminent systems researcher, will be visiting UCL CS to give a Distinguished Lecture this Wednesday at 2 PM. John has made a long series of impressive contributions in the areas of storage systems and self-management of large-scale distributed systems. He’ll be speaking on Borg, a cluster manager system that he and his team built for Google’s large-scale data centers.

John is an ACM Fellow, and is a named inventor on over 40 patents in the area of computer systems design. He began his research career in the UK, where he attended Cambridge for his undergraduate degree and PhD.

All strongly encouraged to attend this talk on system design at the forefront of cloud computing, as practiced at a scale unmatched virtually anywhere else!

Talk announcement follows.

See you there,
-Brad, bkarp at cs.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL CS Distinguished Lecture

Speaker: John Wilkes, Google
http://www.e-wilkes.com/john/work.html

Title: Cluster management at Google with Borg

Time: 2 PM, Wednesday 18 November 2015

Location: Anatomy G29 J Z Young Lecture Theatre

Abstract:

Google’s Borg system is a cluster manager that runs hundreds of thousands of jobs, from many thousands of different applications, across a number of clusters each with up to tens of thousands of machines.

It achieves high utilization by combining admission control, efficient task-packing, over-commitment, and machine sharing with process-level performance isolation. It supports high-availability applications with runtime features that minimize fault-recovery time, and scheduling policies that reduce the probability of correlated failures. Borg simplifies life for its users by offering a declarative job specification language, name service integration, real-time job monitoring, and tools to analyze and simulate system behavior.

I'll present a longer version of the EuroSys paper talk on Borg. It'll include a quick summary of the Borg system architecture and features, provide a quantitative analysis of some of its policy decisions, and then explain how Borg has influenced the open source Kubernetes system.

Bio:

John Wilkes has been at Google since 2008, where he is working on cluster management for Google's compute infrastructure; he was one of the architects of Omega. He is interested in far too many aspects of distributed systems, but a recurring theme has been technologies that allow systems to manage themselves.

He received a PhD in computer science from the University of Cambridge, joined HP Labs in 1982, and was elected an HP Fellow and an ACM Fellow in 2002 for his work on storage system design. Along the way, he’s been program committee chair for SOSP, FAST, EuroSys and HotCloud, and has served on the steering committees for EuroSys, FAST, SoCC and HotCloud. He’s listed as an inventor on 40+ US patents, and has an adjunct faculty appointment at Carnegie-Mellon University. In his spare time he continues, stubbornly, trying to learn how to blow glass.

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