We are continuing the DistSys reading group into the winter term with 10 exciting papers. This list is largely based on SOSP’21 papers. For our foundational paper, we will look at FLP impossibility.
- Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process –
Classical/Foundation Paper- Authors: Michael J. Fischer, Nancy A. Lynch, Michael S. Paterson
- November 10th
- Running BGP in Data Centers at Scale (NSDI’21)
- Authors: Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Kausik Subramanian, Alexey Andreyev, Hyojeong Kim, Nanda Kishore Salem, Jingyi Yang, Petr Lapukhov, Aditya Akella, Hongyi Zeng
- November 17th
- — Thanksgiving Break —
- Faster and Cheaper Serverless Computing on Harvested Resources (SOSP’21)
- Authors: Yanqi Zhang, Inigo Goiri, Gohar Irfan Chaudhry, Rodrigo Fonseca, Sameh Elnikety, Christina Delimitrou, Ricardo Bianchini
- December 1st
- PRISM: Rethinking the RDMA Interface for Distributed Systems (SOSP’21)
- Authors: Matthew Burke, Sowmya Dharanipragada, Shannon Joyner, Adriana Szekeres, Jacob Nelson, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports
- December 8th
- Exploiting Nil-Externality for Fast Replicated Storage (SOSP’21)
- Authors: Aishwarya Ganesan, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
- December 15th
- — Winter Holidays Break —
- Rabia: Simplifying State-Machine Replication Through Randomization (SOSP’21) – January 5th
- Authors: Haochen Pan, Jesse Tuglu, Neo Zhou, Tianshu Wang, Yicheng Shen, Xiong Zheng, Joseph Tassarotti, Lewis Tseng, Roberto Palmieri
- January 5th
- Log-structured Protocols in Delos (SOSP’21)
- Authors: Mahesh Balakrishnan, Chen Shen, Ahmed Jafri, Suyog Mapara, David Geraghty, Jason Flinn, Vidhya Venkat, Ivailo Nedelchev, Santosh Ghosh, Mihir Dharamshi, Jingming Liu, Filip Gruszczynski, Jun Li, Rounak Tibrewal, Ali Zaveri, Rajeev Nagar, Ahmed Yossef, Francois Richard, Yee Jiun Song
- January 12th
- EPaxos Revisited (NSDI’21) – January 19th
- Authors: Sarah Tollman, Seo Jin Park, John Ousterhout
- January 19th
- Basil: Breaking up BFT with ACID (transactions) (SOSP’21)
- Authors: Florian Suri-Payer, Matthew Burke, Yunhao Zhang, Zheng Wang, Lorenzo Alvisi, Natacha Crooks
- January 26th
- Using Lightweight Formal Methods to Validate a Key-Value Storage Node in Amazon S3 (SOSP’21)
- Authors: James Bornholt, Rajeev Joshi, Vytautas Astrauskas, Brendan Cully, Bernhard Kragl, Seth Markle, Kyle Sauri, Drew Schleit, Grant Slatton, Serdar Tasiran, Jacob Van Geffen, Andrew Warfield
- February 2nd
Reading Group
Our reading group takes place over Zoom every Thursday at 1:00 pm EST. We have a slack group where we post papers, hold offline discussions, and most importantly manage Zoom invites to paper presentations. Please join the slack group to get involved!