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Technical Perspective: Data Analysis at Astonishing Speed
The importance of data analysis has never been clearer. Globe-spanning scientific collaborations are exploring...
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Technical Perspective: Complex Financial Products: Caveat Emptor
CDOs are examples of financial derivatives, with a value that depends on the underlying assets with which they are linked. These kinds of complex financial products...
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Computational Complexity and Information Asymmetry in Financial Products
Securitization of cash flows using financial derivatives transformed the financial industry over the last three decades. Derivatives...
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Liability Issues in Software Engineering: The Use of Formal Methods to Reduce Legal Uncertainties
This paper reports on the results of a multidisciplinary project involving lawyers and computer scientists with the aim to put forward a set of methods and tools...
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Technical Perspective: Liability Issues in Software Engineering
The paper by LeMétayer et al. addresses one technical issue in a large and serious problem in the production...
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VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network
VL2 is a practical network architecture that scales to support huge data centers with uniform high capacity between servers, performance isolation between services...
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Technical Perspective: VL2
The Internet is increasingly a platform for online services running on rack after rack of servers. With the advent of large data centers, the study of the networks...
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DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study
While a large body of work exists on DRAM in lab conditions, little has been reported on real DRAM failures in large production clusters. In this paper, we analyze...
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Technical Perspective: DRAM Errors in the Wild
In order to advance the field, knowledge of the types of memory errors at the system level, their frequencies, and conditions that exacerbate or are unrelated to...
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Path Selection and Multipath Congestion Control
This paper studies data transfers under two classes of multipath control, coordinated control where the rates...
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Technical Perspective: Multipath, A New Control Architecture For the Internet
Multipath transmission for the Internet—that is, allowing users to send some of their packets along one path and...
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Sora: High-Performance Software Radio Using General-Purpose Multi-Core Processors
Sora, a fully programmable software radio platform on commodity PC architectures, combines the performance and fidelity of hardware software-defined radio platforms...
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Technical Perspective: Sora Promises Lasting Impact
The objective of Sora is to build a software defined radio that combines the performance and fidelity of hardware...
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FastTrack: Efficient and Precise Dynamic Race Detection
Multithreaded programs are notoriously prone to race conditions. Prior work developed precise dynamic race detectors that never report false alarms. However, these...
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Goldilocks: A Race-Aware Java Runtime
GOLDILOCKS is a Java runtime that monitors program executions and throws a DataRaceException when a data race...
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Technical Perspective: Data Races Are Evil with No Exceptions
Exploiting parallelism has become the primary means to higher performance. Shared memory is a pervasively used programming...
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Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines
Virtual machine monitors are a popular platform for Internet hosting centers and cloud-based compute services. But main memory is not amenable to multiplexed hardware...
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Technical Perspective: A VM 'Engine' That Makes a Difference
The past decade has witnessed a renaissance in server virtualization. Diwaker Gupta et al. present a novel approach for significantly improving the efficiency of...
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Reasoning About the Unknown in Static Analysis
Static program analysis techniques cannot know certain values, such as the value of user input or network state, at analysis...
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