[Colloq] **Hiring Talk** Monday, March 25th, 11am, 149 CN

[Rachel Bates]

Fabian Bustamante
Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems
Georgia Institute of Technology

will speak on:
The Active Streams Approach to Adaptive Distributed Systems

Monday, March 25, 2002
11:00am
149 Cullinane Hall
Northeastern University


ABSTRACT

The widespread deployment of inexpensive communication technologies,
computational resources in the networking infrastructure and network-capable
end devices offers a rich design space for novel distributed applications
and services. Exploration of this space has given rise, for instance, to the
notions of grid and peer-to-peer computing. Both technologies promise to
change the way we think about and use computing by harvesting geographically
distributed resources to create a universal source of pervasive computing
power that will support new classes of applications.
Despite the growing interest in these environments and the increasing
availability of the necessary hardware and network infrastructure, few
actual applications are readily available or widely deployed. This scarcity
results from a number of technical challenges that must be addressed before
the full potential of these technologies can be realized. Most of these
applications, as well as the services they utilize, are expected to handle
dynamically varying demand on resources and to run in large, heterogeneous,
and dynamic environments, where the availability of resources cannot be
guaranteed a priori—all of this while providing acceptable levels of
performance.
In this talk, I will present “Active Streams,” a novel middleware approach
for building adaptive distributed systems aimed at such environments. I will
describe the design and implementation of its supporting framework and
present some experimental results that illustrate its use and demonstrate
its performance and flexibility.


Host:
Paul Attie