About
The MSR India Summer School series, held in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science, consists of lectures in a chosen area by leading experts from around the world. The aim is to introduce students and researchers to important new areas and the latest results and to provide a forum for Indian and international researchers to interact.
The 2012 Summer School was held between May 28 – June 08 at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in the area of Distributed Algorithms, Systems and Programming.
Distributed Computing is the backbone of most modern internet-scale services and forms the basis for their high availability and scalability. However, achieving these features while ensuring the correctness and consistency of shared and replicated mutable state maintained by these services is a huge challenge, due to process, machine and network failures. The summer school focused on these and other related aspects of Distributed Computing.
The School addressed both theoretical as well as practical aspects of building distributed systems and was targeted at senior undergraduates, graduate students, research scholars and faculty members. The School had over 80 attendees from leading institutions representing almost all the leading research in India.
The speakers at the School were renowned researchers in the field delivering lectures over a period of two weeks. Details on the speakers, topics and agenda of the Summer School are as below
Agenda
Week 1
Week 2
Videos
Week 1
Peter Druschel | Distributed Hash Tables: Part I
Miguel Castro | Practical Consensus
Miguel Castro | Byzantine Fault Tolerance
Prof. S. Sudarshan | Concurrency and Consistency in Distributed Database/Storage Systems: Part 2
G. Ramalingam | Distributed Computing: Introduction and Background Material (Part I)
Robbert van Renesse | Group Membership, Atomic Broadcast, Gossip Protocols Part II (A)
Rebecca Isaacs | BarrellFish: A Study in Distributed Operating Systems on Multicore architectures (A)
Tim Harris | Transactional Memory: Composability & Basic Algorithms
Robbert van Renesse | Group membership, Atomic Broadcast, Gossip Protocols Part I (A)
Robbert van Renesse | Group Membership, Atomic Broadcast, Gossip Protocols Part II (B)
Rebecca Isaacs | BarrellFish: A Study in Distributed Operating Systems on Multicore Architectures (B)
Tim Harris | Transactional Memory: Language Integration
Tim Harris | Special Topic: AC – Composable Asynchronous IO for Native Languages
Robbert van Renesse | Group Membership, Atomic Broadcast, Gossip Protocols Part I (B)
Rebecca Isaacs | Distributed Operating Systems on Loosely and Tightly Coupled Architectures
Peter Druschel | Distributed Hash Tables: Part II
Prof. S. Sudarshan | Concurrency and Consistency in Distributed Database/Storage Systems: Part 1
Week 2
Marcos K. Aguilera | Fundamental Algorithms in Distributed Computing: Part I
Marcos K. Aguilera | Fundamental Algorithms in Distributed Computing: Part II
Mike Dahlin | Distributed File Systems: Part I
Kapil Vaswani | Generalized Lattice Agreement
Mike Dahlin | Distributed File Systems: Part II
Tim Harris | Transactional Memory: Semantics & Performance
Lorenzo Alvisi | Reasoning with MAD Distributed Systems: Part I (A)
Lorenzo Alvisi | Reasoning with MAD Distributed Systems: Part II (A)
Marcos K. Aguilera | Geo-Replication
Tim Harris | Transactional Memory: STM in the Small
Lorenzo Alvisi | Reasoning with MAD Distributed Systems: Part I (B)
Lorenzo Alvisi | Reasoning with MAD Distributed Systems: Part II (B)
