The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...

Since the mid-1990s, the costs of compute, storage, and memory have been steadily plummeting. The commoditization revolution in compute ("x86 everywhere"), combined with the commercialization of ...

Salary: The PhD position is fully funded by QMUL for a PhD student with home fee status. The PhD student will receive tuition fees at the home rate and a London stipend at QMUL stipend rates (£22,618 ...

Memory consistency models sit at the heart of concurrent programming systems, defining the set of permissible behaviours when multiple threads interact via shared memory. These models span from the ...

Designing distributed file systems that maintain POSIX-compatibility is a challenging task, often requiring tradeoffs to be made. GFS introduced a decoupled architecture comprising a master, ...

Systems and Networking is a broad and diverse area of computing research which spans areas including: systems, networks and distributed systems, programming languages and software engineering, ...