This is the second of two not well fleshed out ideas. On 03/26/2013 04:36 AM, Janko Mivšek wrote: > Title: > Implement Fast Byzantine Paxos in Slang
> Level: (beginner, intermediate, advanced) > Advanced > Possible mentor: (if already known) > > Possible second mentor: (if already known) > I am willing to help out but I'm sure there's someone better as I don't know slang or how to go about implementing Paxos. yet. > Description > Paxos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_%28computer_science%29) is a framework for solving consensus in a network of unreliable processors. A python implementation is available here: http://openreplica.org/ > Technical Details > Could just port ConCoord (the openreplica.org's backend) from Python to Slang rather than starting from scratch. > Benefits to the Student > Learn Smalltalk, Slang. Implement something hard. > Benefits to the Community With enough images you can just persist everything in the image and each image can be a reasonable size.
