Massivizing computer systems

A vision to understand, design, and engineer computer ecosystems through and beyond modern distributed systems

Conference paper (2018)

Authors

A. Iosup Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Alexandru Uta Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
L.F.D. Versluis The AtLarge Team, Data-Intensive Systems - EEMCS
G. Andreadis Student, The AtLarge Team
E.D.C. van Eyk The AtLarge Team, Student
T.M. Hegeman Student, The AtLarge Team
S. Talluri The AtLarge Team, Student
V.S. van Beek The AtLarge Team, Data-Intensive Systems - EEMCS
Lucian Toader Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The AtLarge Team
Research Group
Data-Intensive Systems (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Design Edge Computing Engineering Distributed Systems Datacenters Cloud Computing Science Vision Massivizing Computer Systems
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Published Date

2018

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Software Technology

Research Group

Data-Intensive Systems

Abstract

Our society is digital: industry, science, governance, and individuals depend, often transparently, on the inter-operation of large numbers of distributed computer systems. Although the society takes them almost for granted, these computer ecosystems are not available for all, may not be affordable for long, and raise numerous other research challenges. Inspired by these challenges and by our experience with distributed computer systems, we envision Massivizing Computer Systems, a domain of computer science focusing on understanding, controlling, and evolving successfully such ecosystems. Beyond establishing and growing a body of knowledge about computer ecosystems and their constituent systems, the community in this domain should also aim to educate many about design and engineering for this domain, and all people about its principles. This is a call to the entire community: there is much to discover and achieve.

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