[Colloquium] TTI-C Talk: Gregory Chockler (2/22/05 @ 3:00pm)

[Katherine Cumming]

TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE TALK
 
Tuesday, February 22nd 3:00 pm
TTI-C Conference Room (1427 E. 60th St. - 2nd Floor) 
Refreshments provided
 
Speaker:  Gregory Chockler, MIT 
Speaker's homepage: http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~grishac
 
Title:  Abstractions for Reliable Distributed Storage
Abstract:
Recently, there has been an increasing interest in distributed storage 
systems where a collection of storage nodes is directly accessible to 
clients over the Internet. Fault-tolerance is an important concern in 
these systems due to the increased risk of component outages, software 
bugs and malicious attacks.  In this talk, I will present a variety of 
abstractions and building blocks (such as shared memory primitives, 
distributed agreement, leader election, etc.) that facilitate the 
development of a reliable distributed store. I will discuss the
possibility 
and cost of implementing these abstractions in terms of the failure 
resilience, communication and memory complexity. The focus will be on 
tolerating arbitrarily corrupt (Byzantine) storage nodes.  If time
permits, 
I will finish with a brief outline of my ongoing work focusing on
fault-tolerant
computing in wireless ad hoc networks.
If you have questions, or would like to meet the speaker, please contact
Katherine at 4-1994 or kcumming at tti-c.org. For information on future
TTI-C talks or events, please go to the TTI-C Events
<http://ttic.uchicago.edu/events/events_dyn.php>  page. 
 
 
 
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