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OSDI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Type-Safe Disks
We present the notion of a type-safe disk (TSD). Unlike a traditional disk system, a TSD is aware of the pointer relationships between disk blocks that are imposed by higher layer...
Gopalan Sivathanu, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Erez ...
ISMVL
2003
IEEE
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16 years 2 days ago
Biomorphic Analog Devices based on Reaction-Diffusion Systems
In this paper, we introduce new analog devices that emulate natural chemical systems, called the reaction-diffusion (RD) system. The RD system gives us a lot of clues and insights...
Tetsuya Asai, Yoshihito Amemiya
SRDS
2000
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Using Multicast Communication to Reduce Deadlock in Replicated Databases
Obtaining good performance from a distributed replicated database that allows update transactions to originate at any site while ensuring one-copy serializability is a challenge. ...
JoAnne Holliday, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
ICS
1998
Tsinghua U.
15 years 11 months ago
Dependence Driven Execution for Multiprogrammed Multiprocessor
Abstract Barrier synchronizations can be very expensive on multiprogramming environment because no process can go past a barrier until all the processes have arrived. If a process ...
Suvas Vajracharya, Dirk Grunwald
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SIGOPSE
1992
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
An experimental comparison of remote procedure call and group communication
This paper suggests that a distributed system should support two communication paradigms: Remote Procedure Call (RPC) and group commumcation. The former is used for point-to-point...
M. Frans Kaashoek, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Kees Verst...