MapReduce is a popular framework for data-intensive distributed computing of batch jobs. To simplify fault tolerance, many implementations of MapReduce materialize the entire outp...
Tyson Condie, Neil Conway, Peter Alvaro, Joseph M....
Solid-state disks are currently based on NAND flash and expose a standard disk interface. To accommodate limitations of the medium, solid-state disk implementations avoid rewritin...
Highly distributed systems such as Grids are used today to the execution of large-scale parallel applications. The behavior analysis of these applications is not trivial. The comp...
Lucas Mello Schnorr, Guillaume Huard, Philippe Oli...
Parallel simulationhas the potentialto accelerate the execution of simulation applications. However, developing a parallel discrete-event simulation from scratch requires an in-de...
Modern search engines are expected to make documents searchable shortly after they appear on the ever changing Web. To satisfy this requirement, the Web is frequently crawled. Due...