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NOVA LINCS PhD student Tiago Vale joined Microsoft Research Cambridge from September to December 2015 under an internship. Tiago had the opportunity to do research work with researchers of the Cambridge Systems and Networking group. Tiago’s internship project was developed in the context of the FaRM project. FaRM is a distributed computing platform created from scratch to take full advantage of emerging technology (RDMA) which allows one processor to directly access memory from another computer, through the network, without intervention of the remote processor. Using this novel technology, FaRM is able to achieve latencies one order of magnitude lower than traditional systems (micro vs. milliseconds) and execute millions of operations per second. During his internship Tiago worked specifically on FaRM’s ability to tolerate faults.

Tiago Vale is a PhD student at NOVA LINCS Computer Systems Group, co-advised by João Lourenço and Ricardo Dias. His main research interests are concurrent and distributed systems, transactional systems, concurrency control, and consistency models.