Target Timeframe

July - October 2012

Goals

• Support a high-volume website
  • Requires durability & availability
• Support experimental applications
  • May not require durability, only minimal availability
• Expect users to require serious hand-holding and interaction with RAMCloud team to develop, deploy, and support their application

Features

• Fault-tolerant coordinator (Ankita)
  • Log cabin (Diego)
• Cold start (Ryan)
• Client retry (John)
• Enumerate (Elliott?)
• Synchronous backup write mode

Stability and Testing

• Fault-tolerance (Ryan)

  • Master recovery
  • Backup recovery
  • Cold start
• Log cleaner (Steve)
• Overload (Steve)

Deployment

• Documentation for development and deployment (as much as the group can collectively generate in 1 day)
• Client interface cleanup (as much as the group can collectively do in 1 day)
• Packaging (make install)
• Archival/Extraction via enumerate (see above)

Notes

• Planned supported transports
  • TCP: Easy deployment on vanilla hardware, low performance
  • InfRc: Requires Infiniband NICs/switches, high performance
• Planned supported scale
  • 80 nodes
  • Test scale down so we can at least give a lower-bound on usable cluster size

Deferred

• Tablet migration
• Supporting additional transports/10 G Ethernet
• Performance testing
• Scale up testing
• Monitoring/Management
• Additional bindings