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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium: The Design of a General-Purpose Distributed Executi
 on System
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:By: Stephanie Wang - UC Berkeley\nIC Faculty candidate\n\nAbst
 ract\nScaling applications with distributed execution has become the norm.
  With the rise of big data and machine learning\, more and more developers
  must build applications that involve complex and data-intensive distribut
 ed processing.\n\nIn this talk\, I will discuss the design of a general-pu
 rpose distributed execution system that can serve as a common platform for
  such applications. Such a system offers two key benefits: (1) common syst
 em functionality such as distributed resource management can be shared acr
 oss different application domains\, and (2) by building on the same platfo
 rm\, applications across domains can easily interoperate.\n\nFirst\, I wil
 l introduce the distributed futures interface\, a powerful yet expressive 
 distributed programming abstraction for remote execution and memory. Secon
 d\, I will introduce ownership\, an architecture for distributed futures s
 ystems that simultaneously provides horizontal scalability\, low latency\,
  and fault tolerance. Finally\, I will present Exoshuffle\, a large-scale 
 shuffle system that builds on distributed futures and ownership to match t
 he speed and reliability of specialized data processing frameworks while u
 sing an order of magnitude less code. These works have reached a broad aud
 ience through Ray\, an open-source distributed futures system for Python t
 hat has more than 23\,000 GitHub stars and that has been used to train Cha
 tGPT and to break the world record for CloudSort.\n\nBio\nStephanie Wang i
 s a final-year PhD student at UC Berkeley\, advised by Professor Ion Stoic
 a. She is interested in distributed systems\, with current focus on proble
 ms in cloud computing and fault tolerance. She is a co-creator and committ
 er of the popular open-source project Ray\, designed for distributed Pytho
 n. Stephanie has received the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Fellowship\, a Di
 stinguished Artifact Award at SOSP’19\, and was selected for Rising Star
 s in EECS in 2021.\n\nMore information
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420 https://epfl.zoom.us/
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