The MACS Scholarship Program presents:
Google File System
a talk by
a talk by
Dr. Sibabrata Ray
Date: Friday, October 24
Time: 4 pm
Place: Fenton Hall, Rm 170
Behind the apparent simplicity of Google applications, there is a plethora of technologies. Developed by many engineers over many years, these technologies allow Google to achieve ambitious goals quickly and efficiently. Dr. Sibabrata Ray, faculty member of the computer science department at the University of Alabama, will discuss one of the major Google technologies: Google File System or GFS.
Google applications, from search to gmail, work in close to real time and at a massive scale. Therefore, Google applications need a scalable, massively distributed, and fault-tolerant file system that allows space and time efficient data storage and retrieval. In that regard, GFS shares the goals of other distributed file systems. However, GFS design is driven by the key observations about Google work load and thus can provide specific support to Google applications.
Over the years, GFS has successfully met storage needs for Google. Large GFS clusters can store terabytes of data and are concurrently accessible by hundreds of clients. We will talk about some performance benchmarks at the end of the talk.
In addition, we will discuss career opportunities for young engineers at Google. For possible job opportunities, you are advised to bring your resume and chat with Dr. Sibabrata Ray after the talk.
