Isis² Cloud Computing Library

Isis2 is a new option for cloud computing that can enable reliable, secure replication of data even in the highly elastic first-tier of the cloud. Isis² is a project of Ken Birman at Cornell University.

Please see the Documentation page for video summaries, release description, as well as complete documentation.

For compilation under Linux environment, please see the Compile page.

Introduction

The need for high assurance has never been greater: with the trends towards data centers of all sizes and shapes (ranging from small racks of just a dozen or two machines to massive cloud computing data centers with hundreds of thousands of them), developers of modern computing systems need to target the Web, employ Web Services APIs, and yet somehow ensure that the solutions they build can scale out without loss of assurance properties such as data security (who knows what the other users of the cloud might be doing… or what might be watching?), consistency and fault-tolerance.

The new Isis² library was built to help you solve this problem in an easy way, closely matched to the style of development used for standard object-oriented applications that use GUI builders.