DATE: Thursday, September 23, 2004
TIME: Noon - 1 pm
PLACE: Wean Hall 8220
SPEAKER:
Michael Abd-El-Malek
CMU
TITLE:
A Protocol for a Decentralized, Scalable, Fault-Tolerant Metadata
Service
ABSTRACT:
Motivated by the need for a scalable, Byzantine-tolerant metadata
service in the PASIS storage system, we have developed an efficient
protocol for implementing shared objects: the query/update (Q/U)
protocol. The Q/U protocol is efficient due to its optimistic nature and
the use of lightweight cryptography (hashes and authenticators). The Q/U
protocol is scalable because it is decentralized (i.e., can take
advantage of quorum systems). The Q/U protocol can be used to implement
objects that export any deterministic operations. Moreover, operations
can span multiple Q/U objects. We have used the Q/U protocol to build
the PASIS metadata service. We will present results that demonstrate the
scalability and efficiency of the PASIS metadata service.
BIO:
Michael Abd-El-Malek is a second year graduate student at Carnegie
Mellon's Parallel Data Lab, working under Greg Ganger and Mike Reiter.
His research interests lie in distributed storage systems, and he's
currently involved in the PASIS and Self-* Storage projects. Mike
received his BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
SDI / LCS Seminar Questions?
Karen Lindenfelser, 86716, or visit www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/