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It;s been two several years considering that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked up Dryad,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, Microsoft;s concurrent-programming competitor to Google;s MapReduce and Apache Hadoop. But this week,Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, Dryad was back again on the radar screen,Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, with Microsoft;s release with the Dryad code to academics and researchers.
The goal of Dryad is to enable programmers to develop and run applications on Windows personal computer clusters. The Dryad software is developed to allow techniques to automatically parallelize at a very low level complicated applications across multiple machines. Unlike current high-performance computing and grid platforms, which are much more focused on compute-intensive workloads, Dryad is extra geared toward data-intensive computing scenarios exactly where scale and fault-tolerance are with the essence.
Microsoft along with a especially few pick partners have been making use of the Dryad code to develop a number of sample and real-world apps — everything from bio-informatics to astronomy-focused programs.
At Microsoft;s Faculty Summit 2009 conference this week, company officials announced the availability of Dryad and the DryadLINQ programming tools. (The Dryad code is in binary form and DryadLINQ in source form). DryadLinq makes the Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) extensions to the C# programming language available to .Net developers writing Dryad apps. Researchers and academics can download both Dryad and DryadLINQ after signing Microsoft;s MS-Research licensing agreement.
At the conference, Microsoft execs also acknowleged that Dryad is not available on top of Azure, Microsoft;s cloud-computing platform,Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, but that the plan is to make it available there. Officials didn;t offer Factulty Summit attendees a timetable for the Azure move, however.
(Check out the slide below from a March 2009 Dryad presentation by Microsoft Researcher Mihai Budiu. The Azure pieces are grayed out, but it;s possible to see how Microsoft envisions Dryad working with Azure.)
For now, Dryad is much more research project than anything else. Like all Microsoft Research projects,Microsoft Office Professional 2007, there;s no guarantee if and when it will be commercialized.
But in 2008, Michael Isard, a Senior Researcher for Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, said Dryad “was built partly to help product groups with the short-term need they had to analyze information and partly in the hopes of being an enabling platform that would permit us to do research into other aspects of distributed computing.”
Microsoft has lots of several concurrent and distributed-computing projects at various stages of readiness. Midori, its next-generation operating system currently in incubation at the company, is just one of these.