The document discusses the consensus problem in distributed computing and the impossibility of solving consensus in an asynchronous system.
The key points are:
1) Consensus requires processes to agree on a single value (0 or 1), despite failures or asynchrony.
2) It is proven impossible to solve consensus in an asynchronous system where message delays are unbounded (FLP proof).
3) However, the Paxos algorithm provides a practical solution that ensures safety and eventual consensus, though it does not guarantee reaching consensus within a bounded time. Paxos is widely used in distributed systems.
This document discusses fault tolerance and distributed systems concepts. It defines key terms like failure, error and fault. It describes different types of faults like hard and soft faults. It discusses failure detection metrics like MTBF, MTTD and MTTR. It also covers different failure models like fail-stop, Byzantine and omission failures. The document then discusses distributed algorithms, their properties of safety and liveness, and timing models like synchronous, asynchronous and partial synchrony. It covers distributed consensus algorithms and how they ensure agreement, validity and termination properties. It provides examples of synchronous fail-stop and Byzantine consensus algorithms.
This document summarizes the implementation of the classic Paxos consensus algorithm in Orc. It describes the key aspects of Paxos including phases 1 and 2, properties like uniqueness of proposal numbers, and how consensus is achieved even with failures of proposers or acceptors. It also discusses optimizations that can be made for efficiency but are not required for correctness.
1. The document discusses process synchronization and solving the critical section problem. It covers solutions like Peterson's algorithm, mutex locks, semaphores, monitors and condition variables.
2. Classical synchronization problems like the bounded buffer, readers-writers, and dining philosophers problems are used to test new synchronization schemes.
3. The document also discusses topics like deadlock, starvation, serializability and concurrency control algorithms in transaction processing.
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Concurrency refers to the execution of multiple tasks or processes in overlapping time periods. In computer science, it is a fundamental concept that allows programs to efficiently handle multiple operations simultaneously, enhancing performance and responsiveness. The key idea behind concurrency is to make progress on several tasks concurrently, rather than sequentially, thereby optimizing resource utilization.
One of the primary motivations for employing concurrency in software is to improve the efficiency of computation in multi-core or multi-processor systems. With the rise of parallel architectures, where multiple processing units operate independently, concurrent programming has become essential to fully leverage the available computing power. Concurrent systems are designed to execute multiple tasks concurrently, offering benefits like increased throughput and reduced latency.
Concurrency can be achieved through various mechanisms, and one common approach is the use of threads. Threads are lightweight, independent units of execution within a process. They share the same memory space but have their own stack, registers, and program counter, enabling them to execute different parts of the code simultaneously. Thread-based concurrency allows developers to write programs that can perform multiple tasks concurrently, enhancing responsiveness and improving overall system performance.
Another method for achieving concurrency is through processes. Unlike threads, processes have their own memory space, making them more isolated. Inter-process communication (IPC) mechanisms are employed to facilitate communication and coordination between processes. This approach is particularly useful for applications requiring a higher level of isolation, security, or fault tolerance.
Concurrency introduces challenges related to synchronization and coordination. When multiple threads or processes access shared resources concurrently, issues such as race conditions and deadlocks can arise. Race conditions occur when the behavior of a program depends on the timing of events, leading to unpredictable outcomes. Deadlocks occur when two or more processes are blocked, each waiting for the other to release a resource.
Yoav Rubin presents on Clojure's approach to concurrency. He discusses the problems with mutability and concurrency, such as race conditions. Clojure uses reference types like atoms, agents, and vars to provide concurrency semantics at the language level rather than relying on locks. Atoms provide shared, atomic changes across threads. Agents perform asynchronous changes in isolation. Vars allow isolated, synchronous changes but share values across threads. This eliminates many concurrency issues due to Clojure's immutable and declarative nature.
This document summarizes key concepts from Chapter 12 of the distributed systems textbook. It covers coordination and agreement problems in distributed systems, including distributed mutual exclusion, elections to choose a unique process, multicast communication, and the consensus problem. Algorithms discussed include a central server algorithm, ring-based algorithm, and algorithm using logical clocks for distributed mutual exclusion. Maekawa's voting algorithm for mutual exclusion is also summarized.
This document summarizes a parallel sorting algorithm called odd-even transposition sort. It works by having processes exchange elements in alternating phases to sort the keys across all processes. The algorithm is implemented using MPI calls like MPI_Sendrecv to avoid deadlocks. Performance tests on larger data sets show good speedup as the number of processes increases. The document also briefly explains parallel prefix sums, which can be computed using MPI_Scan.
Agreement Protocols, Distributed Resource Management: Issues in distributed File Systems, Mechanism for building distributed file systems, Design issues in Distributed Shared Memory, Algorithm for Implementation of Distributed Shared Memory.
This document discusses fault tolerance and distributed systems concepts. It defines key terms like failure, error and fault. It describes different types of faults like hard and soft faults. It discusses failure detection metrics like MTBF, MTTD and MTTR. It also covers different failure models like fail-stop, Byzantine and omission failures. The document then discusses distributed algorithms, their properties of safety and liveness, and timing models like synchronous, asynchronous and partial synchrony. It covers distributed consensus algorithms and how they ensure agreement, validity and termination properties. It provides examples of synchronous fail-stop and Byzantine consensus algorithms.
This document summarizes the implementation of the classic Paxos consensus algorithm in Orc. It describes the key aspects of Paxos including phases 1 and 2, properties like uniqueness of proposal numbers, and how consensus is achieved even with failures of proposers or acceptors. It also discusses optimizations that can be made for efficiency but are not required for correctness.
1. The document discusses process synchronization and solving the critical section problem. It covers solutions like Peterson's algorithm, mutex locks, semaphores, monitors and condition variables.
2. Classical synchronization problems like the bounded buffer, readers-writers, and dining philosophers problems are used to test new synchronization schemes.
3. The document also discusses topics like deadlock, starvation, serializability and concurrency control algorithms in transaction processing.
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One of the primary motivations for employing concurrency in software is to improve the efficiency of computation in multi-core or multi-processor systems. With the rise of parallel architectures, where multiple processing units operate independently, concurrent programming has become essential to fully leverage the available computing power. Concurrent systems are designed to execute multiple tasks concurrently, offering benefits like increased throughput and reduced latency.
Concurrency can be achieved through various mechanisms, and one common approach is the use of threads. Threads are lightweight, independent units of execution within a process. They share the same memory space but have their own stack, registers, and program counter, enabling them to execute different parts of the code simultaneously. Thread-based concurrency allows developers to write programs that can perform multiple tasks concurrently, enhancing responsiveness and improving overall system performance.
Another method for achieving concurrency is through processes. Unlike threads, processes have their own memory space, making them more isolated. Inter-process communication (IPC) mechanisms are employed to facilitate communication and coordination between processes. This approach is particularly useful for applications requiring a higher level of isolation, security, or fault tolerance.
Concurrency introduces challenges related to synchronization and coordination. When multiple threads or processes access shared resources concurrently, issues such as race conditions and deadlocks can arise. Race conditions occur when the behavior of a program depends on the timing of events, leading to unpredictable outcomes. Deadlocks occur when two or more processes are blocked, each waiting for the other to release a resource.
Yoav Rubin presents on Clojure's approach to concurrency. He discusses the problems with mutability and concurrency, such as race conditions. Clojure uses reference types like atoms, agents, and vars to provide concurrency semantics at the language level rather than relying on locks. Atoms provide shared, atomic changes across threads. Agents perform asynchronous changes in isolation. Vars allow isolated, synchronous changes but share values across threads. This eliminates many concurrency issues due to Clojure's immutable and declarative nature.
This document summarizes key concepts from Chapter 12 of the distributed systems textbook. It covers coordination and agreement problems in distributed systems, including distributed mutual exclusion, elections to choose a unique process, multicast communication, and the consensus problem. Algorithms discussed include a central server algorithm, ring-based algorithm, and algorithm using logical clocks for distributed mutual exclusion. Maekawa's voting algorithm for mutual exclusion is also summarized.
This document summarizes a parallel sorting algorithm called odd-even transposition sort. It works by having processes exchange elements in alternating phases to sort the keys across all processes. The algorithm is implemented using MPI calls like MPI_Sendrecv to avoid deadlocks. Performance tests on larger data sets show good speedup as the number of processes increases. The document also briefly explains parallel prefix sums, which can be computed using MPI_Scan.
Agreement Protocols, Distributed Resource Management: Issues in distributed File Systems, Mechanism for building distributed file systems, Design issues in Distributed Shared Memory, Algorithm for Implementation of Distributed Shared Memory.
Inter-process communication (IPC) allows processes to communicate and synchronize actions. There are two main models - shared memory, where processes directly read/write shared memory, and message passing, where processes communicate by sending and receiving messages. Critical sections are parts of code that access shared resources and must be mutually exclusive to avoid race conditions. Semaphores can be used to achieve mutual exclusion, with operations P() and V() that decrement or increment the semaphore value to control access to the critical section. For example, in the producer-consumer problem semaphores can suspend producers if the buffer is full and consumers if empty, allowing only one process at a time in the critical section.
The document discusses processes and process management. It covers key concepts like process state, process scheduling queues, and context switching. It also describes how processes are created and terminated, and the two main models of interprocess communication: shared memory and message passing. Process communication can be direct or indirect and use different buffering and synchronization approaches.
This document discusses various techniques for process synchronization. It begins by defining process synchronization as coordinating access to shared resources between processes to maintain data consistency. It then discusses critical sections, where shared data is accessed, and solutions like Peterson's algorithm and semaphores to ensure only one process accesses the critical section at a time. Semaphores use wait and signal operations on a shared integer variable to synchronize processes. The document covers binary and counting semaphores and provides an example of their use.
Modern applications are faced with the expectation of being always up. As a result, an increasing amount of businesses are transitioning to modern architectures such as the one of reactive microservice-based systems. As compelling as this sounds, this also means to embrace distribution so as to ensure fault-tolerance and scalability - which also means embracing the uncertainty and nondeterminism that comes with building networked applications: changes in link quality, network partitions and outages of individual nodes are scenarios that need to be addressed first-hand when designing such systems.
In this talk you will learn about the fundamental mechanisms that clustered systems need in order to operate in this uncertain world, such as failure detection, gossip-based cluster state propagation, split brain resolution and convergent replicated data types (CRDTs). We will look at these mechanisms in the context of Akka Cluster.
By the end of this talk you should have a solid understanding of the trade-offs that need to be made when building clustered applications. You will also get the sense that a networked application is not just one application, but the cooperation between individual processes that need to probe for each other’s availability and decide what to do when one or more of them are maybe unavailable all while not being able to talk with one another.
Consensus Algorithms: An Introduction & AnalysisZak Cole
When evaluating blockchain networks, consensus mechanism and design are an imperative aspect of system function. While effective implementations should meet technical criteria specific to distributed computational environments, use case should also be taken into consideration.
This webinar will focus on illustrating these concepts while providing a high-level overview of popular consensus algorithms such as Paxos, Aura, Clique, Proof-of-Work, and Proof-of-Stake. Please join us in the discussion – whether you wish to learn about the basics of consensus algorithms or if you have deeper questions on performance, security, or suitability.
1. Consensus and agreement algorithms - Introduction.pdfAzmiNizar1
This document discusses consensus and agreement algorithms. It defines the Byzantine agreement problem which requires processes to reach agreement on an initial value despite faulty processes. The key properties are agreement, validity, and termination. It also describes the consensus problem which is similar but each process starts with a value, and the interactive consistency problem where processes must agree on a set of values. The document outlines common assumptions made in studying these problems, such as failure models and synchronous/asynchronous communication.
Process synchronization involves coordinating access to shared resources among concurrent processes to ensure consistency. It addresses problems that arise from multiple processes executing simultaneously, such as the critical section problem where only one process should access shared variables at a time. Solutions to the critical section problem include mutual exclusion, progress, and bounded waiting. Synchronization techniques include hardware support, mutex locks, semaphores, and addressing classical problems like the bounded buffer, readers-writers, and dining philosophers problems.
Introduction to interprocess communication issues like race conditions and critical regions. Solutions such as mutual exclusion with busy waiting, sleep and wakeup, Semaphores, mutexes, monitors, barriers, and message passing.
The document discusses process synchronization and related concepts. It begins with an introduction to the critical section problem and solutions using both software and hardware approaches. Classical problems of synchronization are presented, such as the bounded-buffer, readers-writers, and dining philosophers problems. The concepts of semaphores, mutexes, and monitors are explained as synchronization mechanisms. Producer-consumer problems are used as examples to demonstrate solutions using counting and binary semaphores.
This document discusses continuous delivery decision points and environments. It notes that as DevOps shifts focus from build/deploy automation to continuous delivery, test environments are proliferating and need to be provisioned and managed efficiently. It also emphasizes that collaboration around testing is important, and teams must make strategic decisions about promoting code changes to subsequent stages or iterating further. Maintaining properly designed automated and manual tests is key to making these decisions. Organizational culture and leadership must also support empowering developers and teams to deliver changes incrementally.
This document discusses parallel matrix multiplication. It describes how to break the problem down into independent inner product operations that can be computed concurrently across multiple processors. Specifically, it presents a parallel algorithm that:
1) Divides the matrix multiplication work into inner product tasks that can be computed independently in parallel;
2) Assigns each inner product task to a separate processor using a round-robin approach; and
3) Waits for all processors to complete their tasks before outputting the final result matrix.
Operating system 19 interacting processes and ipcVaibhav Khanna
Processes within a system may be independent or cooperating
Cooperating process can affect or be affected by other processes, including sharing data
Reasons for cooperating processes:
Information sharing
Computation speedup
Modularity
Convenience
Cooperating processes need interprocess communication (IPC)
Two models of IPC
Shared memory
Message passing
QCon 2014 - Principles of Reliable CommunicationAndy Piper
This document summarizes a presentation about reliable communication and shared state. The presenter is Dr. Andy Piper, CTO of Push Technology. The presentation covers various failure modes in communication systems, including crash failures, omission failures, timing failures, and arbitrary failures. It discusses how redundancy can be used to build fault tolerance, including information, time, and physical redundancy. It also covers challenges like maintaining reliable group membership and reaching agreement in the presence of failures.
Greedy algorithms make locally optimal choices at each step in the hopes of finding a global optimum. They have two key properties: the greedy choice property, where choices are not reconsidered, and optimal substructure, where optimal solutions contain optimal solutions to subproblems. The activity selection problem of scheduling non-conflicting activities is used as an example. It can be solved greedily by always selecting the activity with the earliest finish time. While greedy algorithms are simple, they do not always find the true optimal solution.
Starting an Open Source Project: 0-100k Users - China Mobile Summit 2015 - ENDan Cuellar
An ex-Microsoft employee accidentally created the wildly popular open source project Appium. He shared how Appium got its start and grew to over 100,000 users. Key factors in its success included having a clear philosophy from the beginning, being as inclusive as possible to build an active community, and aggressively promoting Appium in its early days through conferences and forums. The project was also built on existing technologies and supported many languages and platforms.
This document contains the student's responses to 7 questions about operating system concepts related to process synchronization and concurrency control. The questions cover topics like the critical section problem, Peterson's solution, semaphores, monitors, and classical synchronization problems like the bounded buffer problem and readers-writers problem. The student provides definitions and explanations of the key concepts and how they can be implemented using constructs like mutexes, condition variables, load-locked and store-conditional instructions. Specific examples of how synchronization applies in areas like process management and bounded buffers are also discussed.
Shift Risk Left: Security Considerations When Migrating Apps to the CloudBlack Duck by Synopsys
In this session, we'll start with the basics of application security for an environment where development teams are able to push code into production at will. We quickly cover the basics and move on to the advanced topics of tests and models for long-term application security. We'll cover real-world Black Duck CI examples including keeping apps up-to-date in Pivotal Cloud Foundry environments, and end with tips for advocating for long-term security structures.
Road construction is not as easy as it seems to be, it includes various steps and it starts with its designing and
structure including the traffic volume consideration. Then base layer is done by bulldozers and levelers and after
base surface coating has to be done. For giving road a smooth surface with flexibility, Asphalt concrete is used.
Asphalt requires an aggregate sub base material layer, and then a base layer to be put into first place. Asphalt road
construction is formulated to support the heavy traffic load and climatic conditions. It is 100% recyclable and
saving non renewable natural resources.
With the advancement of technology, Asphalt technology gives assurance about the good drainage system and with
skid resistance it can be used where safety is necessary such as outsidethe schools.
The largest use of Asphalt is for making asphalt concrete for road surfaces. It is widely used in airports around the
world due to the sturdiness and ability to be repaired quickly, it is widely used for runways dedicated to aircraft
landing and taking off. Asphalt is normally stored and transported at 150’C or 300’F temperature
Inter-process communication (IPC) allows processes to communicate and synchronize actions. There are two main models - shared memory, where processes directly read/write shared memory, and message passing, where processes communicate by sending and receiving messages. Critical sections are parts of code that access shared resources and must be mutually exclusive to avoid race conditions. Semaphores can be used to achieve mutual exclusion, with operations P() and V() that decrement or increment the semaphore value to control access to the critical section. For example, in the producer-consumer problem semaphores can suspend producers if the buffer is full and consumers if empty, allowing only one process at a time in the critical section.
The document discusses processes and process management. It covers key concepts like process state, process scheduling queues, and context switching. It also describes how processes are created and terminated, and the two main models of interprocess communication: shared memory and message passing. Process communication can be direct or indirect and use different buffering and synchronization approaches.
This document discusses various techniques for process synchronization. It begins by defining process synchronization as coordinating access to shared resources between processes to maintain data consistency. It then discusses critical sections, where shared data is accessed, and solutions like Peterson's algorithm and semaphores to ensure only one process accesses the critical section at a time. Semaphores use wait and signal operations on a shared integer variable to synchronize processes. The document covers binary and counting semaphores and provides an example of their use.
Modern applications are faced with the expectation of being always up. As a result, an increasing amount of businesses are transitioning to modern architectures such as the one of reactive microservice-based systems. As compelling as this sounds, this also means to embrace distribution so as to ensure fault-tolerance and scalability - which also means embracing the uncertainty and nondeterminism that comes with building networked applications: changes in link quality, network partitions and outages of individual nodes are scenarios that need to be addressed first-hand when designing such systems.
In this talk you will learn about the fundamental mechanisms that clustered systems need in order to operate in this uncertain world, such as failure detection, gossip-based cluster state propagation, split brain resolution and convergent replicated data types (CRDTs). We will look at these mechanisms in the context of Akka Cluster.
By the end of this talk you should have a solid understanding of the trade-offs that need to be made when building clustered applications. You will also get the sense that a networked application is not just one application, but the cooperation between individual processes that need to probe for each other’s availability and decide what to do when one or more of them are maybe unavailable all while not being able to talk with one another.
Consensus Algorithms: An Introduction & AnalysisZak Cole
When evaluating blockchain networks, consensus mechanism and design are an imperative aspect of system function. While effective implementations should meet technical criteria specific to distributed computational environments, use case should also be taken into consideration.
This webinar will focus on illustrating these concepts while providing a high-level overview of popular consensus algorithms such as Paxos, Aura, Clique, Proof-of-Work, and Proof-of-Stake. Please join us in the discussion – whether you wish to learn about the basics of consensus algorithms or if you have deeper questions on performance, security, or suitability.
1. Consensus and agreement algorithms - Introduction.pdfAzmiNizar1
This document discusses consensus and agreement algorithms. It defines the Byzantine agreement problem which requires processes to reach agreement on an initial value despite faulty processes. The key properties are agreement, validity, and termination. It also describes the consensus problem which is similar but each process starts with a value, and the interactive consistency problem where processes must agree on a set of values. The document outlines common assumptions made in studying these problems, such as failure models and synchronous/asynchronous communication.
Process synchronization involves coordinating access to shared resources among concurrent processes to ensure consistency. It addresses problems that arise from multiple processes executing simultaneously, such as the critical section problem where only one process should access shared variables at a time. Solutions to the critical section problem include mutual exclusion, progress, and bounded waiting. Synchronization techniques include hardware support, mutex locks, semaphores, and addressing classical problems like the bounded buffer, readers-writers, and dining philosophers problems.
Introduction to interprocess communication issues like race conditions and critical regions. Solutions such as mutual exclusion with busy waiting, sleep and wakeup, Semaphores, mutexes, monitors, barriers, and message passing.
The document discusses process synchronization and related concepts. It begins with an introduction to the critical section problem and solutions using both software and hardware approaches. Classical problems of synchronization are presented, such as the bounded-buffer, readers-writers, and dining philosophers problems. The concepts of semaphores, mutexes, and monitors are explained as synchronization mechanisms. Producer-consumer problems are used as examples to demonstrate solutions using counting and binary semaphores.
This document discusses continuous delivery decision points and environments. It notes that as DevOps shifts focus from build/deploy automation to continuous delivery, test environments are proliferating and need to be provisioned and managed efficiently. It also emphasizes that collaboration around testing is important, and teams must make strategic decisions about promoting code changes to subsequent stages or iterating further. Maintaining properly designed automated and manual tests is key to making these decisions. Organizational culture and leadership must also support empowering developers and teams to deliver changes incrementally.
This document discusses parallel matrix multiplication. It describes how to break the problem down into independent inner product operations that can be computed concurrently across multiple processors. Specifically, it presents a parallel algorithm that:
1) Divides the matrix multiplication work into inner product tasks that can be computed independently in parallel;
2) Assigns each inner product task to a separate processor using a round-robin approach; and
3) Waits for all processors to complete their tasks before outputting the final result matrix.
Operating system 19 interacting processes and ipcVaibhav Khanna
Processes within a system may be independent or cooperating
Cooperating process can affect or be affected by other processes, including sharing data
Reasons for cooperating processes:
Information sharing
Computation speedup
Modularity
Convenience
Cooperating processes need interprocess communication (IPC)
Two models of IPC
Shared memory
Message passing
QCon 2014 - Principles of Reliable CommunicationAndy Piper
This document summarizes a presentation about reliable communication and shared state. The presenter is Dr. Andy Piper, CTO of Push Technology. The presentation covers various failure modes in communication systems, including crash failures, omission failures, timing failures, and arbitrary failures. It discusses how redundancy can be used to build fault tolerance, including information, time, and physical redundancy. It also covers challenges like maintaining reliable group membership and reaching agreement in the presence of failures.
Greedy algorithms make locally optimal choices at each step in the hopes of finding a global optimum. They have two key properties: the greedy choice property, where choices are not reconsidered, and optimal substructure, where optimal solutions contain optimal solutions to subproblems. The activity selection problem of scheduling non-conflicting activities is used as an example. It can be solved greedily by always selecting the activity with the earliest finish time. While greedy algorithms are simple, they do not always find the true optimal solution.
Starting an Open Source Project: 0-100k Users - China Mobile Summit 2015 - ENDan Cuellar
An ex-Microsoft employee accidentally created the wildly popular open source project Appium. He shared how Appium got its start and grew to over 100,000 users. Key factors in its success included having a clear philosophy from the beginning, being as inclusive as possible to build an active community, and aggressively promoting Appium in its early days through conferences and forums. The project was also built on existing technologies and supported many languages and platforms.
This document contains the student's responses to 7 questions about operating system concepts related to process synchronization and concurrency control. The questions cover topics like the critical section problem, Peterson's solution, semaphores, monitors, and classical synchronization problems like the bounded buffer problem and readers-writers problem. The student provides definitions and explanations of the key concepts and how they can be implemented using constructs like mutexes, condition variables, load-locked and store-conditional instructions. Specific examples of how synchronization applies in areas like process management and bounded buffers are also discussed.
Shift Risk Left: Security Considerations When Migrating Apps to the CloudBlack Duck by Synopsys
In this session, we'll start with the basics of application security for an environment where development teams are able to push code into production at will. We quickly cover the basics and move on to the advanced topics of tests and models for long-term application security. We'll cover real-world Black Duck CI examples including keeping apps up-to-date in Pivotal Cloud Foundry environments, and end with tips for advocating for long-term security structures.
Road construction is not as easy as it seems to be, it includes various steps and it starts with its designing and
structure including the traffic volume consideration. Then base layer is done by bulldozers and levelers and after
base surface coating has to be done. For giving road a smooth surface with flexibility, Asphalt concrete is used.
Asphalt requires an aggregate sub base material layer, and then a base layer to be put into first place. Asphalt road
construction is formulated to support the heavy traffic load and climatic conditions. It is 100% recyclable and
saving non renewable natural resources.
With the advancement of technology, Asphalt technology gives assurance about the good drainage system and with
skid resistance it can be used where safety is necessary such as outsidethe schools.
The largest use of Asphalt is for making asphalt concrete for road surfaces. It is widely used in airports around the
world due to the sturdiness and ability to be repaired quickly, it is widely used for runways dedicated to aircraft
landing and taking off. Asphalt is normally stored and transported at 150’C or 300’F temperature
Open Channel Flow: fluid flow with a free surfaceIndrajeet sahu
Open Channel Flow: This topic focuses on fluid flow with a free surface, such as in rivers, canals, and drainage ditches. Key concepts include the classification of flow types (steady vs. unsteady, uniform vs. non-uniform), hydraulic radius, flow resistance, Manning's equation, critical flow conditions, and energy and momentum principles. It also covers flow measurement techniques, gradually varied flow analysis, and the design of open channels. Understanding these principles is vital for effective water resource management and engineering applications.
Determination of Equivalent Circuit parameters and performance characteristic...pvpriya2
Includes the testing of induction motor to draw the circle diagram of induction motor with step wise procedure and calculation for the same. Also explains the working and application of Induction generator
Applications of artificial Intelligence in Mechanical Engineering.pdfAtif Razi
Historically, mechanical engineering has relied heavily on human expertise and empirical methods to solve complex problems. With the introduction of computer-aided design (CAD) and finite element analysis (FEA), the field took its first steps towards digitization. These tools allowed engineers to simulate and analyze mechanical systems with greater accuracy and efficiency. However, the sheer volume of data generated by modern engineering systems and the increasing complexity of these systems have necessitated more advanced analytical tools, paving the way for AI.
AI offers the capability to process vast amounts of data, identify patterns, and make predictions with a level of speed and accuracy unattainable by traditional methods. This has profound implications for mechanical engineering, enabling more efficient design processes, predictive maintenance strategies, and optimized manufacturing operations. AI-driven tools can learn from historical data, adapt to new information, and continuously improve their performance, making them invaluable in tackling the multifaceted challenges of modern mechanical engineering.
Digital Twins Computer Networking Paper Presentation.pptxaryanpankaj78
A Digital Twin in computer networking is a virtual representation of a physical network, used to simulate, analyze, and optimize network performance and reliability. It leverages real-time data to enhance network management, predict issues, and improve decision-making processes.
Accident detection system project report.pdfKamal Acharya
The Rapid growth of technology and infrastructure has made our lives easier. The
advent of technology has also increased the traffic hazards and the road accidents take place
frequently which causes huge loss of life and property because of the poor emergency facilities.
Many lives could have been saved if emergency service could get accident information and
reach in time. Our project will provide an optimum solution to this draw back. A piezo electric
sensor can be used as a crash or rollover detector of the vehicle during and after a crash. With
signals from a piezo electric sensor, a severe accident can be recognized. According to this
project when a vehicle meets with an accident immediately piezo electric sensor will detect the
signal or if a car rolls over. Then with the help of GSM module and GPS module, the location
will be sent to the emergency contact. Then after conforming the location necessary action will
be taken. If the person meets with a small accident or if there is no serious threat to anyone’s
life, then the alert message can be terminated by the driver by a switch provided in order to
avoid wasting the valuable time of the medical rescue team.
Supermarket Management System Project Report.pdfKamal Acharya
Supermarket management is a stand-alone J2EE using Eclipse Juno program.
This project contains all the necessary required information about maintaining
the supermarket billing system.
The core idea of this project to minimize the paper work and centralize the
data. Here all the communication is taken in secure manner. That is, in this
application the information will be stored in client itself. For further security the
data base is stored in the back-end oracle and so no intruders can access it.
Blood finder application project report (1).pdfKamal Acharya
Blood Finder is an emergency time app where a user can search for the blood banks as
well as the registered blood donors around Mumbai. This application also provide an
opportunity for the user of this application to become a registered donor for this user have
to enroll for the donor request from the application itself. If the admin wish to make user
a registered donor, with some of the formalities with the organization it can be done.
Specialization of this application is that the user will not have to register on sign-in for
searching the blood banks and blood donors it can be just done by installing the
application to the mobile.
The purpose of making this application is to save the user’s time for searching blood of
needed blood group during the time of the emergency.
This is an android application developed in Java and XML with the connectivity of
SQLite database. This application will provide most of basic functionality required for an
emergency time application. All the details of Blood banks and Blood donors are stored
in the database i.e. SQLite.
This application allowed the user to get all the information regarding blood banks and
blood donors such as Name, Number, Address, Blood Group, rather than searching it on
the different websites and wasting the precious time. This application is effective and
user friendly.
Generative AI Use cases applications solutions and implementation.pdfmahaffeycheryld
Generative AI solutions encompass a range of capabilities from content creation to complex problem-solving across industries. Implementing generative AI involves identifying specific business needs, developing tailored AI models using techniques like GANs and VAEs, and integrating these models into existing workflows. Data quality and continuous model refinement are crucial for effective implementation. Businesses must also consider ethical implications and ensure transparency in AI decision-making. Generative AI's implementation aims to enhance efficiency, creativity, and innovation by leveraging autonomous generation and sophisticated learning algorithms to meet diverse business challenges.
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2. Give it a thought
Have you ever wondered why distributed
server vendors always only offer solutions
that promise five-9’s reliability, seven-9’s
reliability, but never 100% reliable?
The fault does not lie with the companies
themselves, or the worthlessness of
humanity.
The fault lies in the impossibility of
consensus
3. A group of servers attempting:
• Make sure that all of them receive the same
updates in the same order as each other
• To keep their own local lists where they know
about each other, and when anyone leaves or
fails, everyone is updated simultaneously
• Elect a leader among them, and let everyone in
the group know about it
• To ensure mutually exclusive (one process at a
time only) access to a critical resource like a
file
What is common to all of these?
4. A group of servers attempting:
• Make sure that all of them receive the same updates
in the same order as each other [Reliable Multicast]
• To keep their own local lists where they know about
each other, and when anyone leaves or fails, everyone
is updated simultaneously [Membership/Failure
Detection]
• Elect a leader among them, and let everyone in the
group know about it [Leader Election]
• To ensure mutually exclusive (one process at a time
only) access to a critical resource like a file [Mutual
Exclusion]
What is common to all of these?
5. • Let’s call each server a “process” (think of the
daemon at each server)
• All of these were groups of processes attempting
to coordinate with each other and reach
agreement on the value of something
– The ordering of messages
– The up/down status of a suspected failed process
– Who the leader is
– Who has access to the critical resource
• All of these are related to the Consensus problem
So what is common?
6. Formal problem statement
•N processes
•Each process p has
input variable xp : initially either 0 or 1
output variable yp : initially b (can be changed only once)
•Consensus problem: design a protocol so that at the
end, either:
1. All processes set their output variables to 0 (all-0’s)
2. Or All processes set their output variables to 1 (all-1’s)
What is Consensus?
7. • Every process contributes a value
• Goal is to have all processes decide same (some) value
– Decision once made can’t be changed
• There might be other constraints
– Validity = if everyone proposes same value, then that’s
what’s decided
– Integrity = decided value must have been proposed by
some process
– Non-triviality = there is at least one initial system state
that leads to each of the all-0’s or all-1’s outcomes
What is Consensus? (2)
8. • Many problems in distributed systems are
equivalent to (or harder than) consensus!
– Perfect Failure Detection
– Leader election (select exactly one leader, and every
alive process knows about it)
– Agreement (harder than consensus)
• So consensus is a very important problem, and
solving it would be really useful!
• So, is there a solution to Consensus?
Why is it Important?
9. • Synchronous System Model and
Asynchronous System Model
• Synchronous Distributed System
– Each message is received within bounded time
– Drift of each process’ local clock has a known
bound
– Each step in a process takes lb < time < ub
E.g., A collection of processors connected by a
communication bus, e.g., a Cray supercomputer
or a multicore machine
Two Different Models of Distributed Systems
10. • Asynchronous Distributed System
– No bounds on process execution
– The drift rate of a clock is arbitrary
– No bounds on message transmission delays
E.g., The Internet is an asynchronous distributed
system, so are ad-hoc and sensor networks
This is a more general (and thus challenging)
model than the synchronous system model. A
protocol for an asynchronous system will also
work for a synchronous system (but not vice-
versa)
Asynchronous System Model
11. • In the synchronous system model
– Consensus is solvable
• In the asynchronous system model
– Consensus is impossible to solve
– Whatever protocol/algorithm you suggest, there is always a
worst-case possible execution (with failures and message
delays) that prevents the system from reaching consensus
– Powerful result (see the FLP proof in the Optional lecture of
this series)
– Subsequently, safe or probabilistic solutions have become
quite popular to consensus or related problems.
Possible or Not
14. • Uh, what’s the system model?
(assumptions!)
• Synchronous system: bounds on
– Message delays
– Upper bound on clock drift rates
– Max time for each process step
e.g., multiprocessor (common clock across
processors)
• Processes can fail by stopping (crash-stop
or crash failures)
Let’s Try to Solve Consensus!
15. - For a system with at most f processes crashing
- All processes are synchronized and operate in “rounds” of
time
- the algorithm proceeds in f+1 rounds (with timeout), using
reliable communication to all members
- Valuesr
i: the set of proposed values known to pi at the
beginning of round r.
Consensus in Synchronous Systems
Round 1 Round 2 Round 3
16. - For a system with at most f processes crashing
- All processes are synchronized and operate in “rounds” of time
- the algorithm proceeds in f+1 rounds (with timeout), using reliable communication to
all members
- Valuesr
i: the set of proposed values known to pi at the beginning of round r.
- Initially Values0
i = {} ; Values1
i = {vi}
for round = 1 to f+1 do
multicast (Values r
i – Valuesr-1
i) // iterate through processes, send each a message
Values r+1
i Valuesr
i
for each Vj received
Values r+1
i = Values r+1
i Vj
end
end
di = minimum(Values f+2
i)
Possible to achieve!
Consensus in Synchronous System
17. • After f+1 rounds, all non-faulty processes would have received the same
set of Values. Proof by contradiction.
• Assume that two non-faulty processes, say pi and pj , differ in their final
set of values (i.e., after f+1 rounds)
• Assume that pi possesses a value v that pj does not possess.
pi must have received v in the very last round
Else, pi would have sent v to pj in that last round
So, in the last round: a third process, pk, must have sent v to pi, but then crashed
before sending v to pj.
Similarly, a fourth process sending v in the last-but-one round must have
crashed; otherwise, both pk and pj should have received v.
Proceeding in this way, we infer at least one (unique) crash in each of the
preceding rounds.
This means a total of f+1 crashes, while we have assumed at most f crashes can
occur => contradiction.
Why does the Algorithm work?
18. • Let’s be braver and solve Consensus in the
Asynchronous System Model
Next
20. • Consensus impossible to solve in
asynchronous systems (FLP Proof)
– Key to the Proof: It is impossible to distinguish a
failed process from one that is just very very (very)
slow. Hence the rest of the alive processes may stay
ambivalent (forever) when it comes to deciding.
• But Consensus important since it maps to
many important distributed computing
problems
• Um, can’t we just solve consensus?
Consensus Problem
21. •Paxos algorithm
– Most popular “consensus-solving” algorithm
– Does not solve consensus problem (which
would be impossible, because we already
proved that)
– But provides safety and eventual liveness
– A lot of systems use it
• Zookeeper (Yahoo!), Google Chubby, and
many other companies
•Paxos invented by? (take a guess)
Yes we Can!
22. • Paxos invented by Leslie Lamport
• Paxos provides safety and eventual liveness
– Safety: Consensus is not violated
– Eventual Liveness: If things go well sometime in the future
(messages, failures, etc.), there is a good chance consensus
will be reached. But there is no guarantee.
• FLP result still applies: Paxos is not guaranteed to reach
Consensus (ever, or within any bounded time)
Yes we Can!
23. • Paxos has rounds; each round has a unique ballot id
• Rounds are asynchronous
– Time synchronization not required
– If you’re in round j and hear a message from round j+1, abort everything and
move over to round j+1
– Use timeouts; may be pessimistic
• Each round itself broken into phases (which are also asynchronous)
– Phase 1: A leader is elected (Election)
– Phase 2: Leader proposes a value, processes ack (Bill)
– Phase 3: Leader multicasts final value (Law)
Political Science 101, i.e., Paxos
Groked
24. • Potential leader chooses a unique ballot id, higher than seen anything so far
• Sends to all processes
• Processes wait, respond once to highest ballot id
– If potential leader sees a higher ballot id, it can’t be a leader
– Paxos tolerant to multiple leaders, but we’ll only discuss 1 leader case
– Processes also log received ballot ID on disk
• If a process has in a previous round decided on a value v’, it includes value v’ in its response
• If majority (i.e., quorum) respond OK then you are the leader
– If no one has majority, start new round
• (If things go right) A round cannot have two leaders (why?)
Please elect me! OK!
Phase 1 – election
25. • Leader sends proposed value v to all
– use v=v’ if some process already decided in a previous
round and sent you its decided value v’
• Recipient logs on disk; responds OK
Please elect me! OK!
Value v ok?
OK!
Phase 2 – Proposal (Bill)
26. • If leader hears a majority of OKs, it lets everyone know of the
decision
• Recipients receive decision, log it on disk
Please elect me! OK!
Value v ok?
OK!
v!
Phase 3 – Decision (Law)
27. • That is, when is consensus reached in the system
Please elect me! OK!
Value v ok?
OK!
v!
Which is the point of No-Return?
28. • If/when a majority of processes hear proposed value and
accept it (i.e., are about to/have respond(ed) with an OK!)
• Processes may not know it yet, but a decision has been made
for the group
– Even leader does not know it yet
• What if leader fails after that?
– Keep having rounds until some round completes
Please elect me! OK!
Value v ok?
OK!
v!
Which is the point of No-Return?
29. • If some round has a majority (i.e., quorum) hearing proposed value v’
and accepting it (middle of Phase 2), then subsequently at each round
either: 1) the round chooses v’ as decision or 2) the round fails
• Proof:
– Potential leader waits for majority of OKs in Phase 1
– At least one will contain v’ (because two majorities or quorums always
intersect)
– It will choose to send out v’ in Phase 2
• Success requires a majority, and any two majority sets intersect
Please elect me! OK!
Value v ok?
OK!
v!
Safety
30. • Process fails
– Majority does not include it
– When process restarts, it uses log to retrieve a past decision (if any) and past-seen ballot ids. Tries to know of
past decisions.
• Leader fails
– Start another round
• Messages dropped
– If too flaky, just start another round
• Note that anyone can start a round any time
• Protocol may never end – tough luck, buddy!
– Impossibility result not violated
– If things go well sometime in the future, consensus reached
Please elect me! OK!
Value v ok?
OK!
v!
What could go Wrong?
31. • A lot more!
• This is a highly simplified view of Paxos.
• See Lamport’s original paper:
http://research.microsoft.com/enus/um/people/lamport/pubs/paxossimple.pdf
Please elect me! OK!
Value v ok?
OK!
v!
What could go Wrong?
32. • Consensus is a very important problem
– Equivalent to many important distributed computing problems that
have to do with reliability
• Consensus is possible to solve in a synchronous system where
message delays and processing delays are bounded
• Consensus is impossible to solve in an asynchronous system
where these delays are unbounded
• Paxos protocol: widely used implementation of a safe,
eventually-live consensus protocol for asynchronous systems
– Paxos (or variants) used in Apache Zookeeper, Google’s Chubby
system, Active Disk Paxos, and many other cloud computing
systems
Summary
33. • For the brave among you: the proof of
Impossibility of Consensus (FLP Proof)
Next
35. • Impossible to achieve!
• Proved in a now-famous result by
Fischer, Lynch and Patterson, 1983
(FLP)
– Stopped many distributed system designers
dead in their tracks
– A lot of claims of “reliability” vanished
overnight
Consensus in an Asynchronous
System
36. Asynchronous system: All message delays and processing delays can
be arbitrarily long or short.
Consensus:
•Each process p has a state
– program counter, registers, stack, local variables
– input register xp : initially either 0 or 1
– output register yp : initially b (undecided)
•Consensus Problem: design a protocol so that either
– all processes set their output variables to 0 (all-0’s)
– Or all processes set their output variables to 1 (all-1’s)
– Non-triviality: at least one initial system state leads to each of the
above two outcomes
Recall
37. • For impossibility proof, OK to consider
1. more restrictive system model, and
2. easier problem
– Why is this is ok?
Proof Setup
38. p p’
Global Message Buffer
send(p’,m)
receive(p’)
may return null
“Network”
Network
39. • State of a process
• Configuration=global state. Collection of
states, one for each process; alongside state of
the global buffer.
• Each Event (different from Lamport events)
– receipt of a message by a process (say p)
– processing of message (may change recipient’s state)
– sending out of all necessary messages by p
• Schedule: sequence of events
States
41. C
C’
C’’
Schedule s1
Schedule s2
s2
s1
s1 and s2 involve
disjoint sets of
receiving processes,
and are each applicable
on C
Disjoint schedules are
commutative
Lemma 1
42. Easier Consensus Problem:
some process eventually
sets yp to be 0 or 1
Only one process crashes –
we’re free to choose
which one
Easier Consensus Problem
43. • Let config. C have a set of decision
values V reachable from it
– If |V| = 2, config. C is bivalent
– If |V| = 1, config. C is 0-valent or 1-
valent, as is the case
• Bivalent means outcome is
unpredictable
Easier Consensus Problem
44. 1. There exists an initial
configuration that is bivalent
2. Starting from a bivalent
config., there is always
another bivalent config. that
is reachable
What the FLP proof shows
45. Some initial configuration is bivalent
•Suppose all initial configurations were either 0-valent or 1-valent.
•If there are N processes, there are 2N possible initial configurations
•Place all configurations side-by-side (in a lattice), where adjacent
configurations differ in initial xp value for exactly one process.
1 1 0 1 0 1
•There has to be some adjacent pair of
1-valent and 0-valent configs.
Lemma 2
46. 1 1 0 1 0 1
•There has to be some adjacent pair of 1-valent and 0-valent configs.
•Let the process p, that has a different state across these two configs., be
the process that has crashed (i.e., is silent throughout)
Both initial configs. will lead to
the same config. for the same
sequence of events
Therefore, both these initial
configs. are bivalent when there
is such a failure
Lemma 2 Some initial configuration is bivalent
47. What we’ll show
1. There exists an initial
configuration that is bivalent
2. Starting from a bivalent
config., there is always
another bivalent config. that
is reachable
48. Lemma 3Starting from a bivalent config., there is always
another bivalent config. that is reachable
49. A bivalent initial config.
let e=(p,m) be some event
applicable to the initial config.
Let C be the set of configs. reachable
without applying e
Lemma 3
50. A bivalent initial config.
Let C be the set of configs. reachable
without applying e
e e e e e Let D be the set of configs.
obtained by applying e to some
config. in C
let e=(p,m) be some event
applicable to the initial config.
Lemma 3
51. D
C
e e e e e
bivalent
[don’t apply
event e=(p,m)]
Lemma 3
52. Claim. Set D contains a bivalent config.
Proof. By contradiction. That is,
suppose D has only 0- and 1- valent
states (and no bivalent ones)
• There are states D0 and D1 in D, and
C0 and C1 in C such that
– D0 is 0-valent, D1 is 1-valent
– D0=C0 foll. by e=(p,m)
– D1=C1 foll. by e=(p,m)
– And C1 = C0 followed by some event
e’=(p’,m’)
(why?)
D
C
e e e e e
bivalent
[don’t apply
event e=(p,m)]
53. Proof. (contd.)
• Case I: p’ is not p
• Case II: p’ same as p
D
C
e e e e e
bivalent
[don’t apply
event e=(p,m)]
C0
D1
D0 C1
e
e
e’
e’
Why? (Lemma 1)
But D0 is then bivalent!
54. Proof. (contd.)
• Case I: p’ is not p
• Case II: p’ same as p
D
C
e e e e e
bivalent
[don’t apply
event e=(p,m)]
C0
D1
D0
C1
e e’
A
E0
e
sch. s
sch. s
E1
sch. s
(e’,e)
e
sch. s
• finite
• deciding run from C0
• p takes no steps
But A is then bivalent!
55. Lemma 3Starting from a bivalent config., there is always
another bivalent config. that is reachable
56. • Lemma 2: There exists an initial configuration that is
bivalent
• Lemma 3: Starting from a bivalent config., there is
always another bivalent config. that is reachable
• Theorem (Impossibility of Consensus): There is
always a run of events in an asynchronous
distributed system such that the group of processes
never reach consensus (i.e., stays bivalent all the
time)
Putting it all Together
57. • Consensus Problem
– Agreement in distributed systems
– Solution exists in synchronous system model (e.g.,
supercomputer)
– Impossible to solve in an asynchronous system
(e.g., Internet, Web)
• Key idea: with even one (adversarial) crash-stop process
failure, there are always sequences of events for the
system to decide any which way
• Holds true regardless of whatever algorithm you choose!
– FLP impossibility proof
• One of the most fundamental results in
distributed systems
Summary