CIEL

CIEL is a universal execution engine for distributed computation.

Developed by researchers at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory, CIEL is designed to achieve high scalability and reliability when run on a commodity cluster or cloud computing platform. CIEL supports the full range of MapReduce-style computations, and the included Skywriting scripting language allows developers to create more sophisticated algorithms using a JavaScript-like syntax.

CIEL is open-source software (BSD licensed), and it is available to download here. You might find it useful to read our tutorial.

You can find more information about CIEL in our recent publications.