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Education The lab is teaching the following courses: Concurrent Algorithms Introduction à la Programmation Orientée Objet Distributed Algorithms Secure Distributed Computing (Fall semester 2009) Projects Master Projects EPFL I&C...text/html2012-03-02T13:50:40+01:00knezevic (knezevic@128.178.73.171)Members
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Members Name Function Office Phone Rachid GUERRAOUI Professor INR 310 3 5272 Kristine VERHAMME Secretary INR 326 3 5271 Dan ALISTARH PhD Student INR 312 3 8121 Radu BANABIC PhD S...text/html2012-01-12T15:25:39+01:00alistarh (alistarh@128.178.73.211)Concurrent Algorithms
http://lpd.epfl.ch/site/education/stidc_2011?do=diff1326378339
2011, winter semester. Master course. Prerequisites: none. Dates and schedule The course is given on Tuesdays, 8:15-10:00, in INF119. The exercises are given on Tuesdays, 13:15-14.00, in INF119. The final exam is on Friday, Jan 27th, at 16:15...text/html2011-07-18T16:07:11+01:00fablpd (fablpd@109.11.126.222)Our publications
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Our research is about the theory and practice of distributed computing. Opportunities: We are looking for PhD students, interns and postdocs in distributed algorithms and systems starting as soon as possible ! ...text/html2011-01-24T18:34:27+01:00knezevic (knezevic@128.178.73.171)Distributed Algorithms
http://lpd.epfl.ch/site/education/da?do=diff1295890467
Master course, Fall 2010 Prerequisites: none. Note: this course is independent from the course Concurrent Algorithms. News Last updated: Dec 21, 2010 Solutions of the exam are now online. The final exam will take place in CO1, on January 22...text/html2010-12-10T17:28:06+01:00fablpd (fablpd@128.178.154.12)How Good Is A Transactional Memory Implementation?
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New website !! New URL is http://lpd.epfl.ch/transactions/ ...text/html2010-10-19T15:02:59+01:00knezevic (knezevic@128.178.73.171)Port Quorum/Chain/Zlight to go programming language - created
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Semester project The goal of this project is to port Zlight, Quorum and Chain implemented in C++ to go programming language. Go programming language offers good concurrency, and is geared toward network applications. Language: go/C++ Responsible:...text/html2010-10-19T14:59:26+01:00knezevic (knezevic@128.178.73.171)Evaluation of select/poll/epoll machanisms in BFT protocols - created
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Semester project The goal of the project is to evaluate performance of different event notification systems (select/poll/epoll) in BFT protocol implementations, across different working conditions. Based on the evaluation, discover which parameters...text/html2010-10-19T14:56:02+01:00knezevic (knezevic@128.178.73.171)Document submission system with BFT properties (Master project) - created
http://lpd.epfl.ch/site/education/bft_easychair?do=diff1287492962
EasyChair is a system to organize paper submission and pc meetings for conferences. This system has a distinct bimodal access pattern, with times when there are many users accessing the system, and longer periods where system idles. Due to its sensi...text/html2010-10-19T14:36:16+01:00knezevic (knezevic@128.178.73.171)Efficient runtime for BFT systems (Master project)
http://lpd.epfl.ch/site/education/userver_bft?do=diff1287491776
Current BFT protocols are often implemented in ad-hoc manners, either by reusing existing code, or implementing the system from scratch. Mostly, C/C++ is the language of choice for BFT developer, although there are some examples of using Java. In mo...text/html2010-10-19T14:35:40+01:00knezevic (knezevic@128.178.73.171)BFT notification system: BFT tweeter (Master project) - created
http://lpd.epfl.ch/site/education/bft_tweet?do=diff1287491740
Tweeter is a well know notification system, with millions of users, and billions of messages processed daily. However, Tweeter was not designed from ground-up to handle all possible kinds of faults. In situations where reliability is a primary conce...text/html2010-08-16T10:46:08+01:00fablpd (fablpd@128.178.154.12)LPD Seminars
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LPD Seminars This is a joint seminar of the Distributed Programming Laboratory and the Programming Methods Laboratory. The idea is to present our current work to the members of the two groups. However researchers from the outside world are also e...text/html2009-12-06T16:38:02+01:00knezevic (knezevic@144.85.150.225)How to improve performance of BFT systems?
http://lpd.epfl.ch/site/research/bft?do=diff1260113882
We design and evaluate Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) state machine replication systems, both on theoretical and implementation ground. We ask: What affects performance of such systems in different environments, What are the inherent limitations a...text/html2009-11-23T13:53:14+01:00ccachin (ccachin@128.178.73.213)Secure Distributed Computing
http://lpd.epfl.ch/site/education/secure_distributed_computing?do=diff1258980794
A course in the doctoral school in computer, communication and information sciences, fall semester 2009. Description Summary. The goal of this course is to understand distributed cryptosystems and protocols for distributed systems that use the r...text/html2009-11-02T13:47:34+01:00gramoli (gramoli@128.178.73.194)Concurrent Applications using Elastic Transactions
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Master project In an attempt to make the programming abstraction as general as possible, Software Transactional Memory (STM) often hampers performance. In contrast with STMs, synchronization techniques at the core of a concurrent program that targe...text/html2009-11-02T13:45:07+01:00gramoli (gramoli@128.178.73.194)Large-Scale Distributed Transactions
http://lpd.epfl.ch/site/education/distributed_tx?do=diff1257165907
Master project Transactional Memory (TM) is a synchronization mechanism dedicated to the multicore era where cores communicate through shared memory. Recent results have shown how TM can leverage cache coherence protocols, this led to the definitio...text/html2009-11-01T21:35:27+01:00gramoli (gramoli@84.227.178.193)Transactional Elasticity and Boosting
http://lpd.epfl.ch/site/education/elasticity_boosting?do=diff1257107727
Master project In an attempt to make the programming abstraction as general as possible, Software Transactional Memory (STM) often hampers performance. In contrast with STMs, synchronization techniques at the core of a concurrent program that targe...text/html2009-11-01T16:11:42+01:00gramoli (gramoli@84.227.178.193)Concurrent Applications using Elastic Transactions
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Implementing highly concurrent applications using elastic transactions in Software Transactional Memories (STM). ...text/html2009-11-01T16:08:51+01:00gramoli (gramoli@84.227.178.193)Elasticity and Boosting - created
http://lpd.epfl.ch/site/research/education/elasticity?do=diff1257088131
Comparing transactional boosting against elastic transactions in benchmarks for multi-core architectures. ...