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Ravi Pandya
Architect
Cloud Computing Futures
Microsoft
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97-	Institute for Molecular Manufacturing

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Orleans: A Framework for Cloud Computing

For the last year, I've been in the eXtreme Computing Group (XCG) in Microsoft Research, working on the Orleans project. Our goal is to make it much easier to write reliable, scalable, distributed cloud+client applications. I'm really enjoying it, and it's great to be working on something that I can talk about publicly.

We now have a video on Channel 9 with the whole development team discussing the project:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Project-Orleans-A-Cloud-Computing-Framework

We've also published a technical report describing the overall design and architecture of the system:
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/?id=141999

There's also a brief summary of the project here:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/orleans/default.aspx

Feel free to email me if you have any questions or comments. (Or if you're interested in working on this kind of thing - we've laid a great foundation so far, but there are plenty of interesting problems still to work on, like better programming language support, or large-scale data- and compute-intensive applications.)

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