If the University of California, Berkeley’s AMPLab doesn’t ring bells, perhaps some of its projects will: Spark and Mesos.
AMPLab was planned all along as a five-year computer science research initiative, and it closed down as of last November after running its course. But a new lab is opening in its wake: RISELab, another five-year project at UC Berkeley with major financial backing and the stated goal of “focus[ing] intensely for five years on systems that provide Real-time Intelligence with Secure Execution [RISE].”