CSR-PDOS: BFT: The Time is Now

CSR-PDOS：BFT：现在就是时候

• 批准号: 0720649
• 负责人: Lorenzo Alvisi
• 金额: $ 78.84万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0720649&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSR; PDOS; BFT; Time; Now

The thesis of this research is simple: Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) techniques and technology trends are nearing an inflection point where significant production deployment of BFT systems can be made viable.This research aims to (1) develop new BFT technologies sufficient to make BFT deployable in a range of production systems and (2) construct significant prototype BFT systems whose costs and performance are comparable to deployed systems that use replication to tolerate a much narrower range of faults. If this work is successful and if technology trends continue, we believe it will become attractive for service providers to trade increasingly inexpensive hardware for the piece of mind provided by BFT replication.

这项研究的论点很简单：拜占庭容错（Byzantine fault tolerance，BFT）技术和技术趋势正在接近一个拐点，在这个拐点上，BFT系统的重要生产部署变得可行。本研究旨在（1）开发新的BFT技术，足以使BFT可部署在一系列生产系统中;（2）构建重要的原型BFT系统，其成本和性能与使用复制来容忍更窄范围的故障的已部署系统相当。如果这项工作取得成功，如果技术趋势继续下去，我们相信它将成为有吸引力的服务提供商贸易越来越便宜的硬件提供的一块头脑由BFT复制。