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<introduction>
<para>Dryad is a distributed execution engine that provides fault-tolerant execution of computations on a
cluster of computers. The goal of DryadLINQ is to make distributed computing on large compute clusters simple.
DryadLINQ combines two important pieces of Microsoft technology: the Dryad distributed execution engine and the
.NET Language Integrated Query(<externalLink>
<linkText>LINQ</linkText>
<linkUri>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/bb397926.aspx</linkUri>
<linkTarget>_blank</linkTarget>
</externalLink>). The DryadLINQ job browser is a graphical user interface which provides a
unified view of a large part of the distributed state of a DryadLINQ job.</para>
<para>Dryad, DryadLINQ, and the JobBrowser have been released as open source under the Apache 2.0 license. The
source is hosted at the <externalLink>
<linkText>Dryad GitHub repository</linkText>
<linkUri>https://github.com/MicrosoftResearchSVC/Dryad</linkUri>
<linkTarget>_blank</linkTarget>
</externalLink>. There are also <externalLink>
<linkText>Dryad NuGet packages</linkText>
<linkUri>http://www.nuget.org/packages?q=dryadlinq</linkUri>
<linkTarget>_blank</linkTarget>
</externalLink> available built from the source, to make
it easy to develop applications using these tools.
</para>
</introduction>
<section>
<title>Getting Started</title>
<content>
<para>There are <link xlink:href="4a617e67-0920-46e4-9223-5effbac46b3d">Getting Started instructions</link> here.</para>
</content>
</section>
<section>
<title>Using the job browser</title>
<content>
<para>See details on <link xlink:href="91822db3-8a00-4307-ad8a-595c94f449b0">Building the job browser</link>. More documentation
is listed in the <externalLink>
<linkText>DryadLINQ job browser manual</linkText>
<linkUri>https://github.com/MicrosoftResearchSVC/Dryad/wiki/Using%20the%20DryadLINQ%20job%20browser</linkUri>
<linkTarget>_blank</linkTarget>
</externalLink>.</para>
</content>
</section>
<section>
<title>Resources</title>
<content>
<para>Reference documentation for the <codeEntityReference>N:Microsoft.Research.DryadLinq</codeEntityReference> namespace.
</para>
<para>What actually happens when a <link xlink:href="3596a79f-0714-43b0-b49a-ea9eeccb7326">DryadLINQ job runs on HDInsight</link>.
</para>
</content>
</section>
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