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SUMMARY:Spanner: Google’s Planet-Spanning Database - Siamak Tazari\, Goo
 gle
DTSTART:20141016T121500Z
DTEND:20141016T133000Z
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CONTACT:Jan Samols
DESCRIPTION:Spanner is Google’s scalable\, multi-version\, globally dist
 ributed\, and synchronously-replicated database. It is the first system to
  distribute data at global scale and support externally-consistent distrib
 uted transactions. This talk gives an overview of Spanner as well as a bri
 ef deep dive into the transaction & concurrency handling of Spanner which 
 uses a novel time API that exposes clock uncertainty and utilizes GPS as w
 ell as atomic clocks. This API and its implementation are critical to supp
 orting external consistency and a variety of powerful features: nonblockin
 g reads in the past\, lock-free read-only transactions\, and atomic schema
  changes\, across all of Spanner.
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory
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