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SUMMARY:Rethinking State-Machine Replication for Multicore Architectures -
  Parisa Jalili Marandi\, University of Lugano
DTSTART:20140310T100000Z
DTEND:20140310T110000Z
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CONTACT:Microsoft Research Cambridge Talks Admins
DESCRIPTION:The advent of multicore processors and their wide availability
  has revolutionized systems programming and application development strate
 gies. To increase their capacity to serve clients and to benefit from the 
 new hardware\, service providers have to parallelize their services. Simil
 arly to their sequential predecessors\, however\, parallel services must a
 lso be continually available to the clients\, despite failures. State-mach
 ine replication is a well-established strategy to make services fault tole
 rant. In this talk we will look at the capability of the state-machine app
 roach in replicating parallel services. On the one hand\, parallel applica
 tions require concurrent processing of requests to provide high performanc
 e and on the other hand\, state-machine replication requires sequential pr
 ocessing of requests to preserve consistency. During this presentation we 
 will consider the possibility of uniting these two apparently incompatible
  models and will propose a scalable solution.
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 21 Station Road\, Cambridge
 \, CB1 2FB
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