Objective
Planetary-scale distributed systems form the backbone of many societal-scale applications.
We take for granted the continuous availability of these services; outages in these services cause widespread disruption.
Today, developers do not have principled approaches to provision, analyze, or prove performance or
resilience properties of such systems. Performance properties relate to long-run average properties of the
system, such as latency, throughput, and goodput. Resilience properties relate to the ability of the system
to recover when its environment assumptions are temporarily violated. Developers test for such properties
using expensive but woefully inadequate workload testing, and availability outages continue to plague
users.
The Pascal project poses the grand challenge of formally reasoning about the performance and resilience
of large-scale distributed systems. Its ultimate goal is to develop methodologies and tools that system
developers can use to reason about implementations of their systems. Reasoning about performance
and resilience requires solving a number of foundational problems across an interdisciplinary
landscape, comprising distributed systems, program verification and model checking, stochastic modeling
and analysis, and control theory. These disciplines each have a rich collection of methods, but none of
them offer an end-to-end formal approach to performance and resilience.
The theoretical foundations for Pascal require building novel programming abstractions, specification
formalisms, and reasoning principles for understanding, analyzing, and synthesizing tech-
niques that ensure system performance and resilience. The practical dimensions reify the foundational
understanding in usable developer tools.
If successful, Pascal will revolutionize our ability to develop, analyze, and
operate high-confidence, performant, and resilient distributed systems, a problem of high societal impact.
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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(opens in new window) ERC-2025-ADG
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80539 MUNCHEN
Germany
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