Distributed Systems - Redmond
The Redmond Distributed Systems Research Group investigates the scalabilty, security, fault tolerance, manageability, and performance of distributed systems. Our current main research topics are networked multiplayer games and administration-free distributed computing.
People
Projects
(sorted by recency)
- CHADS- chip-area distributed systems
- Xax - browser plug-in architecture for web applications
- ASIRRA - human interactive proof system
- Composable Virtual Earth - distributed authoring system for online maps
- Donnybrook - systems issues in networked multiplayer games
- Farsite - scalable serverless distributed file system
Recent Publications
- Jon Howell, Bryan Parno, and John R. Douceur, How to Run POSIX Apps in a Minimal Picoprocess, in Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX, June 2013
- Jon Howell, Bryan Parno, and John R. Douceur, Embassies: Radically Refactoring the Web, in Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Awarded "Best Paper", USENIX, 5 April 2013
- Jacob R. Lorch, Bryan Parno, James Mickens, Mariana Raykova, and Joshua Schiffman, Shroud: Enabling Private Access to Large-Scale Data in the Data Center, in Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), USENIX, 14 February 2013
- Edmund B. Nightingale, Jeremy Elson, Jinliang Fan, Owen Hofmann, Jon Howell, and Yutaka Suzue, Flat Datacenter Storage, in 10th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2012), USENIX, October 2012
- James Mickens and Matthew Finifter, Jigsaw: Efficient, Low-effort Mashup Isolation, in Proceedings of WebApps, USENIX, June 2012
- Kaisen Lin, David Chu, James Mickens, Li Zhuang, Feng Zhao, and Jian Qiu, Gibraltar: Exposing Hardware Devices to Web Pages Using AJAX, in Proceedings of WebApps, USENIX, June 2012
- James Mickens, Rivet: Browser-agnostic Remote Debugging for Web Applications, in Proceedings of USENIX ATC, USENIX, June 2012
- Johnson Apacible, Rich Draves, Jeremy Elson, Jinliang Fan, Owen Hofmann, Jon Howell, Ed Nightingale, Reuben Olinsky, and Yutaka Suzue, MinuteSort with Flat Datacenter Storage, no. MSR-TR-2012-126, 15 May 2012
- Siddhartha Sen, Jacob R. Lorch, Richard Hughes, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Brian Zill, Weverton Cordeiro, and Jitendra Padhye, Don’t Lose Sleep Over Availability: The GreenUp Decentralized Wakeup Service, in Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), USENIX, April 2012
- John R. Douceur, Jon Howell, Bryan Parno, and Michael Walfish, Refactoring the Web Interface, in SOSP 2011 Poster Session, 24 October 2011
- James Mickens and Mohan Dhawan, Atlantis: Robust, Extensible Execution Environments for Web Applications, in Proceedings of SOSP, ACM, October 2011
- Thomas Moscibroda and Rotem Oshman, Resilience of Mutual Exclusion Algorithms to Transient Memory Faults, in 30th Annual Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), ACM, June 2011
- Alexander Jaffe, Thomas Moscibroda, Laura Effinger-Dean, Luis Ceze, and Karin Strauss, The Impact of Memory Models on Software Reliability in Multiprocessors, in PODC 2010 (Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing), ACM, June 2011
- Raluca Ada Popa, Jacob R. Lorch, David Molnar, Helen J. Wang, and Li Zhuang, Enabling Security in Cloud Storage SLAs with CloudProof, in USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX, June 2011
- Bryan Parno, Jacob R. Lorch, John R. Douceur, James Mickens, and Jonathan M. McCune, Memoir: Practical State Continuity for Protected Modules, in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE, May 2011
- Edmund B. Nightingale, John R Douceur, and Vince Orgovan, Cycles, Cells and Platters: An Empirical Analysis of Hardware Failures on a Million Consumer PCs, in Proceedings of EuroSys 2011, Awarded "Best Paper", ACM, April 2011
- Song Liu, Karthik Pattabiraman, Thomas Moscibroda, and Ben Zorn, Flikker: Saving DRAM Refresh-power through Critical Data Partitioning, in 16th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), ACM, March 2011
- John R. Douceur, Jacob R. Lorch, Bryan Parno, James Mickens, and Jonathan M. McCune, Memoir---Formal Specs and Correctness Proofs, no. MSR-TR-2011-19, February 2011
- Reetuparna Das, Onur Mutlu, Thomas Moscibroda, and Chita Das, Aergia: Exploiting Packet Latency Slack in On-Chip Networks, in IEEE Micro. Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from 2010 Computer Architecture Conference, IEEE, February 2011
See our full publications list.