The IoWarp Runtime: Chimaera

Chimaera is a flexible runtime system for building and executing data-intensive tasks. Chimaera defines a set of abstractions that make the development of active, reliable, upgradeable and malleable I/O stacks easier. The core abstractions are the ChiPool and ChiContainer. A ChiPool represents a set of ChiContainers. Each individual ChiContainer represents a subset of data and the computations that can happen to that data. ChiContainers can be migrated and are addressed using an unchanging, machine-independent DomainId. For example, a ChiPool could represent a distributed key-value store while a ChiContainer represents a bucket in that key-value store.