John Wilkes, Google: Cluster Management at Google

John Wilkes, Google

Title: Cluster Management at Google

Abstract:

Cluster management is the term that Google uses to describehow 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 monitoring.  My goal is to present an overview 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, too, 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 service level agreements for 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.