2009-July Tashi Incubator Status Report

Tashi has been incubating since September 2008.

The Tashi project aims to build a software infrastructure for cloud computing 
on massive internet-scale datasets (what we call Big Data). The idea is to 
build a cluster management system that enables the Big Data that are stored in 
a cluster/data center to be accessed, shared, manipulated, and computed on by 
remote users in a convenient, efficient, and safe manner.

Development activities have included adding a locality and layout service, 
integrating metrics into ganglia for monitoring, more complicated network 
isolation support, and preliminary code for the purpose of communicating with
Maui, a cluster scheduler.  Additionally, the documentation has been enhanced 
on the project webpage.

The project is still struggling to grow a substantial user community, but there 
are several active contributors.  We are looking forward to the opportunity to 
present our work with PRS and Hadoop at SC'09 [1].  In addition, Tashi is 
deployed at Intel's OpenCirrus [2] site where it has more than 20 users.  It is 
also being installed at CMU's OpenCirrus site.

Items to be resolved before graduation:
        * Prepare and review a release candidate
        * Develop community diversity (currently Intel and CMU committers)

[1] http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/view/tut168
[2] http://opencirrus.org/