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Software Upgrades in Distributed Systems

MIT2002-02

Start date: 07/2002

 Barbara Liskov
MIT LCS

Tadashi Araragi
NTT

Project summary

Our research is concerned with how to upgrade software in distributed systems: how to cause the code running in the system to change while the system continues to run.

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The research is concerned with very large robust systems that are intended to provide continuous service over a very long lifetime. Examples include a distributed object-oriented database system in which persistent objects are stored at thousands of geographically distributed servers; a system that speeds up delivery of rich media by pre-positioning content at thousands of geographically distributed caches; an embedded system in which sensors collect information that is combined and then used to control actuators; and a system providing archival file storage for millions of users.


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