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SUMMARY:Consensus in distributed systems - Gellért Weisz\, Churchill Coll
 ege
DTSTART:20141029T190000Z
DTEND:20141029T194000Z
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CONTACT:Matthew Ireland
DESCRIPTION:On this special Wednesday we will investigate algorithms for k
 eeping a unique database in distributed\, fault-tolerant systems. We will 
 first see how the industry-quality Raft algorithm delivers stability and h
 igh performance and highlight its most important design choices. Then we w
 ill set off on a journey to the world of virtual currency where the same i
 ssue has to be handled completely differently. We are talking Bitcoin. We 
 are talking underground races against shady criminals for dirty £££. Ca
 n you keep up?
LOCATION:Wolfson Hall\, Churchill College
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