Re: Possible related work: Scalable Elastic Systems Architecture

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the heads up Derek!  From reading the slides, it looks quite
complementary: the mention of Snowflock implies fast cloning support for
conventional guest operating systems, with some more support for hardware
hotplug and library-based configuration.

As the merge with the Xen Cloud Platform continues, Mirage is going to 
turn into a coordination platform that executes 'legacy jobs' in VMs and
establishes input/output channels and storage resources across them. Their
use of 9P is also quite encouraging; Dave wrote a 9P implementation in
2007 or so, and we've always been meaning to use something very close to
it for the distributed name-service.

Would be interested to hear any thoughts you might have if you attend
the poster session.

cheers,
Anil

On 13 Jun 2012, at 18:53, Derek Murray wrote:

> Hello from Boston,
> 
> I noticed that these people are giving a poster about their new
> library OS for cloud computing:
> 
> https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc12/library-os-cloud-computing
> 
> Some or all of the same people have a slideshare:
> 
> http://www.slideshare.net/ericvh/scalable-elastic-systems-architecture-sesa
> 
> There's a paper from RESOLVE'11, but it seems to be behind some kind
> of VMWare subscribe-wall.
> 
> Perhaps you've already heard about this, but it seems like it might be
> related to Mirage!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> D.
>