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Zyzzyva: Speculative Byzantine Fault Tolerance
A longstanding vision in distributed systems is to build reliable systems from unreliable components. An enticing formulation of this vision is Byzantine fault-tolerant...
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Geometry, Flows, and Graph-Partitioning Algorithms
"Graph partitioning" refers to a family of computational problems in which the vertices of a graph have to be partitioned...
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Technical Perspective: New Developments in Graph Partitioning
Arora, Rao, and Vazirani discuss the most important developments in approximation algorithms over the last two decades.
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Technical Perspective: Transactional Memory in the Operating System
The long tradition of building ever-faster processors is ending, with the computer industry instead putting more...
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TxLinux and MetaTM: Transactional Memory and the Operating System
TxLinux is the first operating system to use hardware transactional memory (HTM) as a synchronization primitive, and the first to manage HTM in the scheduler. TxLinux...
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Technical Perspective: A Methodology For Evaluating Computer System Performance
Computer science has long had a solid foundation for evaluating the performance of algorithms. The asymptotic...
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Technical Perspective: Transactions Are Tomorrow's Loads and Stores
In computer science, when we say "time is money," we typically refer to two types of time that determine the costs and benefits...
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Composable Memory Transactions
In this paper we present a concurrency model based on transactional memory. All the usualblocking and choice...
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Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: Evaluation Methodology For the 21st Century
Evaluation methodology underpins all innovation in experimental computer science. It requires relevant workloads, appropriate experimental design, and rigorous...
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