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SUMMARY:Reading Group - Sinfonia: a new paradigm for building scalable dis
 tributed systems - Sriram Srinivasan (Computer Laboratory\, Univ. of Cambr
 idge)
DTSTART:20081111T143000Z
DTEND:20081111T153000Z
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CONTACT:Pedro Brandao
DESCRIPTION:*Slides "available":http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/opera
 /meetings/attachments/2008-11-11-Sinfonia.pdf .*\n\nFrom the reading group
  list "Sinfonia: a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems"
 :http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1294278\n\nMarcos K. Aguilera\, Ari
 f Merchant\, Mehul Shah\, Alistair Veitch\, Christos Karamanolis\n\nProcee
 dings of twenty-first ACM SIGOPS symposium on Operating systems principles
 \, 2007 \n\n*Abstract:*\n\nWe propose a new paradigm for building scalable
  distributed systems. Our approach does not require dealing with message-p
 assing protocols -- a major complication in existing distributed systems. 
 Instead\, developers just design and manipulate data structures within our
  service called Sinfonia. Sinfonia keeps data for applications on a set of
  memory nodes\, each exporting a linear address space. At the core of Sinf
 onia is a novel minitransaction primitive that enables efficient and consi
 stent access to data\, while hiding the complexities that arise from concu
 rrency and failures. Using Sinfonia\, we implemented two very different an
 d complex applications in a few months: a cluster file system and a group 
 communication service. Our implementations perform well and scale to hundr
 eds of machines.
LOCATION:Room FW11\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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