The QuickSilver project at

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is an

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-funded effort to build a platform in support of a new generation of scalable, secure, reliable

distributed computing A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed computing is a field of computer sci ...

applications able to "regenerate" themselves after failure. Among the partners on this project are

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funding under the SRS program, the

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, IBM, and

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. The principal investigators are Cornell Professors

Kenneth P. Birman Kenneth P. Birman (born November 18, 1955) is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. He currently holds the N. Rama Rao Chair in Computer Science. Education Birman received his B.S. from Columbia University and ...

Johannes Gehrke Johannes Gehrke is a German computer scientist and the director of Microsoft Research in Redmond and CTO and Head of Machine Learning for the Microsoft Teams Backend. He is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and the recipient of the 2011 IEEE Compute ...

, and

Paul Francis Paul Francis is an American business executive and politician who has served under three Governors of New York, holding such positions as the Director of State Operations for the State of New York. In that position he oversaw the state's eight ma ...

External links

Project home page
with links to the over 140 published papers from 1999-2006. DARPA {{compu-stub