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National Internet Defense - Small States on the Skirmish Line
Despite the global and borderless nature of the Internet's underlying protocols and driving philosophy, there are significant ways in which it remains substantively...
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Virtualization: Blessing or Curse?
Managing virtualization at a large scale is fraught with hidden challenges.
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Thinking Clearly About Performance, Part 2
More important principles to keep in mind when designing high-performance software.
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Photoshop Scalability: Keeping It Simple
Clem Cole and Russell Williams discuss Photoshop's long history with parallelism, and what is now seen as the chief challenge.
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Thinking Clearly About Performance, Part 1
Improving the performance of complex software is difficult, but understanding some fundamental principles can make it easier.
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Injecting Errors For Fun and Profit
Error-detection and correction features are only as good as our ability to test them.
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Moving to the Edge: A CTO Roundtable on Network Virtualization
Leading experts debate how virtualization and clouds impact network service architectures.
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You're Doing It Wrong
Think you've mastered the art of server performance? Think again.
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Why Cloud Computing Will Never Be Free
The competition among cloud providers may drive prices downward, but at what cost?
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Principles of Robust Timing Over the Internet
The key to synchronizing clocks over networks is taming delay variability.
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A View of Cloud Computing
Clearing the clouds away from the true potential and obstacles posed by this computing capability.
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Cooling the Data Center
What can be done to make cooling systems in data centers more energy efficient?
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Toward Energy-Efficient Computing
What will it take to make server-side computing more energy efficient?
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Managing Contention For Shared Resources on Multicore Processors
Contention for caches, memory controllers, and interconnects can be eased by contention-aware scheduling algorithms.
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Power-Efficient Software
Power-manageable hardware can help save energy, but what can software developers do to address the problem?
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Triple-Parity RAID and Beyond
As hard-drive capacities continue to outpace their throughput, the time has come for a new level of RAID.
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Maximizing Power Efficiency with Asymmetric Multicore Systems
How do we develop software to make the most of the promise that asymmetric multicore systems use a lot less energy?
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What DNS Is Not
DNS is many things to many people — perhaps too many things to too many people.
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A Threat Analysis of RFID Passports
An RFID-passport attack is more plausible than skimming RFID information. Do RFID passports make us vulnerable to identity theft?
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