The QuickSilver project at Cornell University was an AFRL-funded effort to build a platform in support of a new generation of scalable, secure, reliable distributed computing applications able to "regenerate" themselves after failure. [1]
Among the partners on the project are DARPA funding under the SRS program, the United States Air Force. Raytheon, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon. [1]
The principal investigators are Cornell Professors Kenneth P. Birman, Johannes Gehrke, and Paul Francis [1]