Skywriting

Skywriting is a programming language and execution engine for distributed, parallel computation. Like previous frameworks (such as MapReduce and Dryad), it masks the complexity of distributed programming. Unlike those frameworks, it offers a full general-purpose programming language for expressing distributed coordination, which enables developers to implement algorithms using arbitrary task structures.

• Getting Started
• Tutorial
• Source code

People

• Derek Murray
• Malte Schwarzkopf
• Chris Smowton
• Anil Madhavapeddy
• Steve Hand

Publications

• Scripting the cloud with Skywriting
  Derek G. Murray and Steven Hand
  in Proceedings of the Second USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 2010), Boston, MA, June 2010 (to appear)
  

Talks

• Programming the cloud with Skywriting
  Imperial College, London, 13th May 2010