We consider the the problem of tracking heavy hitters and quantiles in the distributed streaming model. The heavy hitters and quantiles are two important statistics for characteri...
This paper reports on the emergent use of lightweight text chat to provide important grounding and facilitation information in a large, distributed, ad-hoc group of researchers pa...
Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Thomas A. Finholt, Daniel B. ...
A distributed software system's deployment architecture can have a significant impact on the system's dependability. Dependability is a function of various system paramet...
Sam Malek, Nels Beckman, Marija Mikic-Rakic, Nenad...
Dryad is a general-purpose distributed execution engine for coarse-grain data-parallel applications. A Dryad application combines computational “vertices” with communication ...
Michael Isard, Mihai Budiu, Yuan Yu, Andrew Birrel...
Data-intensive applications are increasingly designed to execute on large computing clusters. Grouped aggregation is a core primitive of many distributed programming models, and i...