Dryad & DryadLINQ Team Blog

We’re going to start off this blog with a couple of basic posts explaining what Dryad and DryadLINQ are. I’m going to start by introducing Dryad, and Yuan will follow on with DryadLINQ. Dryad is an execution engine that is optimized for certain types...

Last Tuesday at PDC’09 , John Vert gave a comprehensive overview of the DryadLINQ framework for data-intensive computing on Windows HPC Server. John is an architect in the HPC Server team and he has played a key role in the development of the adapters...

Welcome to the official Microsoft blog for Dryad and DryadLINQ! The purpose of this blog is to share information about the design and implementation of our system, and also about ways that people are using Dryad and DryadLINQ to perform distributed computations...

We made the Dryad/DryadLINQ research stack available as a free download last July. Since then, we’ve made a number of improvements that we wanted to share. Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of an update to our initial release. The...