Team for Research in
Ubiquitous Secure Technology

Citation
Ken Birman, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Danny Dolev, Tudor Marian, Krzysztof Ostrowski, Amar Phanishayee. "Scalable Multicast Platforms for a New Generation of Robust Distributed Applications". Proceedings The Second IEEE/Create-Net/ICST International Conference on Communication System software and Middleware (COMSWARE)., 2007.

Abstract
As distributed systems scale up and are deployed into increasingly sensitive settings, demand is rising for a new generation of communications middleware in support of application-level critical-computing uses. Ricochet, Tempest and QuickSilver are multicast-based systems developed to respond to this need. Ricochet and QuickSilver are multicast platforms; both are exceptionally scalable and support fault tolerance properties that match closely with the needs of high availability applications. Ricochet was designed to support time-critical applications replicated for scalability on data centers and clusters. These are typically coded in Java and run under Linux. Tempest is layered over Ricochet and automates most tasks of programming services for data centers. In contrast, QuickSilver focuses on high throughput and is targeted towards very large deployments of desktop computing systems, in support of publish-subscribe, event notification or media dissemination applications. In this paper we offer an overview of the systems and some of the new systems embeddings that, we believe, make them far easier to use than was the case in prior multicast platforms.

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  Ken Birman, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Danny Dolev, Tudor Marian,
  Krzysztof Ostrowski, Amar Phanishayee. <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/164.html"
  >Scalable Multicast Platforms for a New Generation of
  Robust Distributed Applications</a>, Proceedings The
  Second IEEE/Create-Net/ICST International Conference on
  Communication System software and Middleware (COMSWARE).,
  2007.

• Plain text

  Ken Birman, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Danny Dolev, Tudor Marian,
  Krzysztof Ostrowski, Amar Phanishayee. "Scalable
  Multicast Platforms for a New Generation of Robust
  Distributed Applications". Proceedings The Second
  IEEE/Create-Net/ICST International Conference on
  Communication System software and Middleware (COMSWARE).,
  2007.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{BirmanBalakrishnanDolevMarianOstrowskiPhanishayee07_ScalableMulticastPlatformsForNewGenerationOfRobustDistributed,
      author = {Ken Birman and Mahesh Balakrishnan and Danny Dolev
                and Tudor Marian and Krzysztof Ostrowski and Amar
                Phanishayee},
      title = {Scalable Multicast Platforms for a New Generation
                of Robust Distributed Applications},
      booktitle = {Proceedings The Second IEEE/Create-Net/ICST
                International Conference on Communication System
                software and Middleware (COMSWARE).},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {As distributed systems scale up and are deployed
                into increasingly sensitive settings, demand is
                rising for a new generation of communications
                middleware in support of application-level
                critical-computing uses. Ricochet, Tempest and
                QuickSilver are multicast-based systems developed
                to respond to this need. Ricochet and QuickSilver
                are multicast platforms; both are exceptionally
                scalable and support fault tolerance properties
                that match closely with the needs of high
                availability applications. Ricochet was designed
                to support time-critical applications replicated
                for scalability on data centers and clusters.
                These are typically coded in Java and run under
                Linux. Tempest is layered over Ricochet and
                automates most tasks of programming services for
                data centers. In contrast, QuickSilver focuses on
                high throughput and is targeted towards very large
                deployments of desktop computing systems, in
                support of publish-subscribe, event notification
                or media dissemination applications. In this paper
                we offer an overview of the systems and some of
                the new systems embeddings that, we believe, make
                them far easier to use than was the case in prior
                multicast platforms.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/164.html}
  }
  

Posted by Bill Hogan on 9 Feb 2007.
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