Mike Freedman and I have known each other since we were Masters students at MIT, working on things like the Tarzan anonymizing network (a parallel, pre-cursor to Tor). He went on to build the hugely successful (“as seen on Slashdot”) Coral content distribution network, which figured largely in his dissertation. It’s a great [...]
Justin Cappos received his PhD from the University of Arizona under the supervision of John Hartman. I met Justin several years ago at a PlanetLab Consortium meeting when he was starting to work on Stork, a system to simplify package deployment. He is currently a Post Doc at the University of Washington working [...]
After my last post on implementing Chord, I thought it might be insightful and educational to examine how others are building research distributed systems. I have asked a number of colleagues who have built successful research systems to answer a few questions about their implementations. Here, successful roughly means that the system has [...]
The Chord protocol dynamically constructs robust and scalable overlay networks that map a given key to an active node. The MIT PDOS Chord implementation has served as a reference implementation of Chord, and over the years has accumulated many tweaks and improvements. While the theoretical highlights have largely been documented in our publications, [...]
