DistOS-2011W Public Goods

Members

• Lester Mundt - lmundt at connect.carleton.ca
• Fahim Rahman - frahman at connect.carleton.ca
• Andrew Schoenrock - aschoenr at scs.carleton.ca

Tuesday March 1

Key components:

• Distributed File System
  • Can use something previously presented in class
• Distributed computation
• Administration
  • How much does a person need to contribute to the system?
  • How will users submit (small) services they would like to have run?
  • How can very large services be established (from idea to implementation)?

Todo for March 8th:

• • Find papers on distributed computation and administration

Thursday March 3

• Seek out papers on specific topic of distributed web cache.

• Discussed two other interesting public goods or services.
  • Image registry
  • DNA registry - found one article that suggests uncompressed the human genome is between 1.5 and 30 terrabytes but more efficient formats exist that bring it down to 1.5GB

http://www.genetic-future.com/2008/06/how-much-data-is-human-genome-it.html 

One example paper Improving Web Server Performance by Caching Dynamic Data