Workshop on Internet-Scale Software Technologies (TWIST 2000)

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Workshop on Internet-Scale Software Technologies
(TWIST 2000)

• Richard N. Taylor, Director
• Institute for Software Research
• University of California, Irvine
• http//www.isr.uci.edu/twist2000

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Brought to you by

• UCIs Institute for Software Research
• and our corporate sponsors
• whose support we greatly appreciate

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UCI-ISRs Mission

• Established 7/1/99, ISR is dedicated to
• Fostering innovative basic and applied research
  in software and information technologies,
• Working with start-ups, established companies,
  government agencies, and standards bodies to
  develop and transition technologies to widespread
  and practical application,

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Mission, cont.

• Educating the next generation of software
  researchers and practitioners in advanced
  software technologies,
• Supporting the public service mission of the
  University of California in developing the
  economic basis of the State of California.

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• TWIST 2000 Organizational and Technical Issues
  in the Tension Between Centralized and
  Decentralized Applications on the Internet
• TWIST 99 Internet-scale Namespaces, August
  19-20, 1999
• The Workshop on Internet-Scale Event
  Notification, (WISEN), July 13-14, 1998

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Centralization

• Can centralized applications continue to scale
  with the growth of Internet users, traffic, types
  of services, and customer base?
• Can existing centralized approaches continue to
  grow unabated, or will they reach hard limits?
• If they can grow unabated, then how can this be
  accomplished and how does it impact decentralized
  application architecture and development?

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Distribution

• At what levels of an application's design should
  distribution be employed?
• What are the key distinguishing characteristics
  of services (applications) for which centralized
  architectures (exploiting Moore's Law) will
  continue to suffice?
• Under what circumstances are decentralized
  architectures superior? Necessary?

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Axes of Influence

• Economic and business models.
• Trust.
• Robustness/fault-tolerance.
• Scale.
• Problem characteristics.
• Democratization.

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Organization

• Sessions begin with presentations, followed by
  extensive discussion time
• Closing session focused on coalescing results and
  setting agendas for the future
• But first introductions