Related Work

• Programming model inspired by functional language primitives
• Partitioning/shuffling similar to many large-scale sorting systems
  • NOW-Sort ['97]
• Re-execution for fault tolerance
  • BAD-FS ['04] and TACC ['97]
• Locality optimization has parallels with Active Disks/Diamond work
  • Active Disks ['01], Diamond ['04]
• Backup tasks similar to Eager Scheduling in Charlotte system
  • Charlotte ['96]
• Dynamic load balancing solves similar problem as River's distributed queues
  • River ['99]