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SOSP
1997
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Cashmere-2L: Software Coherent Shared Memory on a Clustered Remote-Write Network
Low-latency remote-write networks, such as DEC’s Memory Channel, provide the possibility of transparent, inexpensive, large-scale shared-memory parallel computing on clusters of...
Robert Stets, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Nikos Hardavellas...
MANSCI
2006
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15 years 4 months ago
Procuring Fast Delivery: Sole Sourcing with Information Asymmetry
This paper studies a queuing model in which a buyer sources a good or service from an single supplier chosen from a pool of suppliers. The buyer seeks to minimize the sum of her p...
Gérard P. Cachon, Fuqiang Zhang
IISWC
2008
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
STAMP: Stanford Transactional Applications for Multi-Processing
Abstract—Transactional Memory (TM) is emerging as a promising technology to simplify parallel programming. While several TM systems have been proposed in the research literature,...
Chi Cao Minh, JaeWoong Chung, Christos Kozyrakis, ...
PODS
2012
ACM
281views Database» more  PODS 2012»
13 years 7 months ago
Mergeable summaries
We study the mergeability of data summaries. Informally speaking, mergeability requires that, given two summaries on two data sets, there is a way to merge the two summaries into ...
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Graham Cormode, Zengfeng Huang,...
USS
2008
15 years 6 months ago
The Practical Subtleties of Biometric Key Generation
The inability of humans to generate and remember strong secrets makes it difficult for people to manage cryptographic keys. To address this problem, numerous proposals have been s...
Lucas Ballard, Seny Kamara, Michael K. Reiter