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SUMMARY:Liberating distributed consensus - Heidi Howard (Computer Lab)
DTSTART:20180726T140000Z
DTEND:20180726T150000Z
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CONTACT:Marco Caballero
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe ability to reach consensus between hosts\, whe
 ther for addressing\, primary election\, locking\, or coordination\, is a 
 fundamental necessity of modern distributed systems. The Paxos algorithm i
 s at the heart of how we achieve distributed consensus today and as such h
 as been the subject of extensive research to extend and optimise the algor
 ithm for practical distributed systems. \n\nIn the talk\, we revisit the u
 nderlying theory behind Paxos\, weakening its original requirements and ge
 neralising the algorithm. We demonstrate that Paxos is\, in fact\, a singl
 e point on a broad spectrum of approaches to consensus and conclude by arg
 uing that other points on this spectrum offer a much-improved foundation f
 or constructing scalable\, resilient and high performance distributed syst
 ems.\n\nBio and photo are here http://hh360.user.srcf.net/blog/about-me/
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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