Murray Stokely

I joined Google in 2005. While at Google I've worked in the following areas:

Web Search

• Reliability and monitoring of the production web crawling system.
• Improving freshness and comprehensiveness of the Google web search index.

Storage and Distributed Systems

• Building a market economy for provisioning machine resources
• Measuring the statistical behavior of failures at different levels of Google's distributed storage infrastructure to influence storage system and datacenter design.

Statistical Computing

• Building infrastructure for statistical computing on big data.
• Implementing large-scale traffic forecasting and capacity planning models for web search and related services.

Open Source

• Summer of Code (In 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008).
• Contributing to the R Project for Statistical Computing and several open-source R packages.

To help continue bringing in new talent, I have also been fairly involved in the engineering hiring process.

I received an M.Sc. in Mathematics and the Foundations of Computer Science from Oxford University, working with Joel Ouaknine in the area of Software Model Checking. Prior to joining Google I was deeply involved in the FreeBSD operating system, and was the primary release engineer for the FreeBSD 4.x releases.

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Publications

• “Projecting Disk Usage Based on Historical Trends in a Cloud Environment”, Murray Stokely, Amaan Mehrabian, Christoph Albrecht, Francois Labelle, Arif Merchant, Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Scientific cloud computing, 2012 (to appear).
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• “Large-Scale Parallel Statistical Forecasting Computations in R”, Murray Stokely, Farzan Rohani, Eric Tassone, JSM Proceedings, Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2011.
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• “Availability in Globally Distributed Storage Systems”, Daniel Ford, Francois Labelle, Florentina Popovici, Murray Stokely, Van-Anh Truong, Luiz Barroso, Carrie Grimes, Sean Quinlan, Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2010.
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• “Using a Market Economy to Provision Compute Resources Across Planet-wide Clusters”, Murray Stokely, Jim Winget, Ed Keyes, Carrie Grimes, Benjamin Yolken, Proceedings for the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2009, pp. 1-8.
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• “Parallel Assignments in Software Model Checking”, Murray Stokely, Sagar Chaki, Joel Ouaknine, Electr. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci., vol. 157 (2006), pp. 77-94.
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