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The QuickSilver project at Cornell University is an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)-funded initiative aimed at building a platform for a new generation of scalable, secure, and highly reliable distributed computing applications. A key innovation of the project is its ability to enable systems that can “regenerate” themselves automatically after failures, thereby improving resilience in mission-critical environments.
In addition to AFRL sponsorship, the project has received support from DARPA under its Self-Regenerative Systems (SRS) program, and has included collaboration with industry and defense partners such as the United States Air Force, Raytheon, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon.
The research draws heavily on advances in fault-tolerant distributed systems, secure communication protocols, and self-healing architectures, with an emphasis on both defense and commercial applications where system downtime or compromise can have severe consequences.
The principal investigators are Cornell Professors Kenneth P. Birman, a leading researcher in distributed systems and reliable computing, Johannes Gehrke, an expert in databases and large-scale data processing, and Paul Francis, known for his work on scalable Internet architectures.
External links
edit- Project home page with links to the over 140 published papers from 1999-2006.
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