[Brown CS Talks] Brown CS Seminar: Fabian Bustamante in Lubrano on 4/3/02 at noon

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			      CS Seminar
		  
		  The Department of Computer Science
			   BROWN UNIVERSITY

			      
			       presents

			  Fabian Bustamante

		   Georgia Institute of Technology

				
		   Wednesday, April 3, 2002 at noon
	       Lubrano Conference Room (CIT 4th floor)
	       Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am
		       

     The Active Streams Approach to Adaptive Distributed Systems

 

			       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:  Professor Steve Reiss