<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Hey StarCluster,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">I’m a contributor to Apache Mesos and work for a company called Mesosphere that creates Mesos-oriented products. For anyone that doesn’t know, Mesos is a resource orchestrator for large cluster deployments. It manages compute nodes and distributed computations.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">As a hobby project i’m implementing a variety of deep learning systems onto Mesos. The idea is that as the tools for resource orchestration increase and the barrier to entry for deep learning decreases, a large influx of ‘casual’ deep learning environments will enter the ecosystem. Furthermore, i’m trying to show measurable speed increases to DL systems through new distributed architectures.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">However, before I do any work on this, I was curious as to whether this is a relevant project to anyone here, and what the star cluster deployments at MIT look like (obviously don’t need to go into research specifics here, just maybe size and capacity). </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Thanks,</div><br><div class="bloop_sign" id="bloop_sign_1435611450081134080"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">Abhay Agarwal</div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">Project Manager, Growth Team</div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">Mesosphere</div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.mesosphere.com">www.mesosphere.com</a></div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">BS in Electrical Engineering (2012)</div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">UC Berkeley</div></div></body></html>