1. CSAIL Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Largest Lab at MIT 50 Year Legacy 107 Primary Investigators 1,033 Members Total ??? Active Research Projects

2. OpenStack(beta)Essex 2012/07 Folsom 2012/09 768 physical cores 64 nodes Ubuntu + Puppet Goal Rapid Deployment (adapt as we go)Running 90% by 2013/02 3. OpenStack(ga)Grizzly 2013/08 Havana soon... Move to Neutron Networking Split High CPU / Web Apps (host aggregates & instance types)Coming Soon ... Orchestration (Heat) Metering (Ceilometer) 4. So Who's Using It? 114 Users 38 Projects 468,866 Instances (lifetime total) 6,303,639 vCPU Hours As of 25 October ...ALFA http://groups.csail.mit.edu/EVO-DesignOptTREC-KBA http://trec-kba.orgJigsaw http://people.csail.mit.edu/sanchezNMS http://nms.csail.mit.eduLIS http://lis.csail.mit.eduJulia http://julialang.org/ 5. ALFAAnyscale Learning For All Scalable Evolutionary Algorithms Machine Learning Frameworks for knowledge mining, prediction, analytics and optimizationhttp://groups.csail.mit.edu/EVO-DesignOpt/groupWebSite/ 6. TREC-KBA Text Retrieval Conference's Knowledge Base Acceleration competition MIT is the Organizing Team Content Stream 462M Texts, 40% English 4,973 hourly chunks of 100k doc/hr stream News, blogs, forumshttp://trec-kba.org 7. Ubik service guarantees for latency-critical workloads Hardware & Software System Simulation ~ 1 Quadrillion Instructions Saw 2x - 3x speed up using cloud in addition to dedicated hardwarehttp://people.csail.mit.edu/sanchez 8. NMS Network & Mobile Systems Student contest for congestion control algorithms Machine learning to get computers to design congestion control algorithms Possible future work on intelligent VM placement in cloudshttp://nms.csail.mit.edu 9. LIS Learning & Intelligent Systems Artificially Intelligent Robots Cookie Baking Robot OpenStack used for design & simulation of object recognition systemshttp://lis.csail.mit.edu 10. LIS Learning & Intelligent Systems Artificially Intelligent Robots Cookie Baking Robot OpenStack used for design & simulation of object recognition systemshttp://lis.csail.mit.edu 11. Julia VHLL for Parallel Programing Now MIT Licensed Community project Serving IJulia cluster used for research and teachinghttp://julialang.org 12. Future Work Infrastructure as Research Platform Internet Facing Applications Consolidate Existing Virtualization One Cloud Per Student ? Bare Metal ? GPUs ? Cloud Desktops ?