Eric Brewer 2017 Whitepaper on Spanner

‘Spanner,’ responsible for keeping more than 2,000 of its services running,

What is the internet? Short answer: a distributed packet-switched network. This is the introduction video to the series, "How the Internet Works". Vint Ce...

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After Motorola gave them to Google

'I'm not sure Google is trying to maximize profits'

Mountain View wants your exabyte

The Net’s basic flaws cost firms billions, impede innovation, and threaten national security. It’s time for a clean-slate app

Sub-nanosecond precision clock synchronization over the packet network has been achieved by the White Rabbit protocol for a decade. However, few computer systems utilize such a technique. We try...

Google treats its infrastructure like a state secret, so Google czar of infrastructure Urs Hölzle rarely ventures out into the public to speak about it. Today is one of those rare days. At the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, California, Hölzle is announcing that Google essentially has remade a major part of its massive internal network, providing the company a bonanza in savings and efficiency. Google has done this by brashly adopting a new and radical open-source technology called OpenFlow.

Cloud Spanner, a globally distributed relational database service, offers customers ACID transactions and SQL semantics, without giving up horizontal scaling and high availability.

On any other day, the cloud press might have been going crazy over AWS's new WebEx-style communication service Chime, and perhaps AWS's new Elastic Block Store volumes, as well. But yesterday was not any other day: It was the day that Google announced its long-awaited Spanner database as a service (more detail on that later).What we're seeing in the increasingly heated battle between the two companies, encapsulated by yesterday's news, is that AWS has inherited the DNA of its parent company, bett

Supercomputing news and information focused on emerging HPC applications in science, engineering, financial modeling, virtual reality, databases and other compute intensive tasks

What is wrong with the Internet today? SCION is a clean-slate internet architecture, with up-to-date security and scalability properties, meant to overcome the limitations of the current IP- and BGP-based internet, namely security, availability, and performance.

Dr. Guru Parulkar joined Stanford University in August 2007 and served as the Executive Director of its Clean Slate Internet Design Program. He has been in the field of networking for over 25 years and cherishes the opportunities he has had to work with great people. He has worked in academia (Washington University in St. […]

Nobody’s going to tear down the Internet and rebuild it from scratch, but academics at Stanford University are imagining what the new blueprint would look like if they did and they hope their work will lead to an Internet that works better in 20 years than it does today.

The paper discusses a research program for a clean slate design of a “Future Internet” undertaken by Bell Labs in cooperation with a consortium of major European operators, manufacturers, and academia. The research cooperation explores innovative solutions in architectural design, virtualization, and generic connectivity in order to create a future “network of information.” We describe high-level goals and identify technical requirements and the expected business opportunities of this initiative. A basic idea for a new networking concept—the “generic path”—is outlined as an example of how to realize this in the future.

We believe that the current Internet has significant deficiencies that need to be solved before it can become a unified global communication infrastructure. Further, we believe the Internet’s shortcomings will not be resolved by the conventional incremental and “backward-compatible” style of academic and industrial networking research. The proposed program will focus on unconventional, bold, and long-term research that tries to break the network’s ossification. To this end, the research program can be characterized by two research questions: “With what we know today, if we were to start again with a clean slate, how would we design a global communications infrastructure?”, and “How should the Internet look in 15 years?” We will measure our success in the long-term: We intend to look back in 15 years time and see significant impact from our program.

Many believe that it is impossible to resolve the challenges facing today's Internet without rethinking the fundamental assumptions and design decisions underlying its current architecture. Therefo...

Scientists throughout the world are looking at a large-scale overhaul of some basic Internet elements to eliminate the need to constantly create workarounds to meet the challenges of coping with technology changes.