Snap-shot mechanisms are used to read a globally consistent set of variable values. Such a mechanism can be used to solve a variety of communication and synchronization problems, ...
Andreas Ermedahl, Hans Hansson, Marina Papatrianta...
All Netflix Prize algorithms proposed so far are prohibitively costly for large-scale production systems. In this paper, we describe an efficient dataflow implementation of a coll...
Srivatsava Daruru, Nena M. Marin, Matt Walker, Joy...
Large-scale Internet applications can benefit from an ability to predict round-trip times to other hosts without having to contact them first. Explicit measurements are often un...
Frank Dabek, Russ Cox, M. Frans Kaashoek, Robert M...
Molecular docking software makes computational predictions of the interaction of molecules. This can be useful, for example, in evaluating the binding of candidate drug molecules ...
Christopher D. Rosin, R. Scott Halliday, William E...
In this paper we propose a novel software-only distributed sharedmemory system (SW-DSM), the Affinity Entry Consistency (AEC) protocol. The protocol is based on Entry Consistency ...