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MIDDLEWARE
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Why Do Upgrades Fail and What Can We Do about It?
Abstract. Enterprise-system upgrades are unreliable and often produce downtime or data-loss. Errors in the upgrade procedure, such as broken dependencies, constitute the leading ca...
Tudor Dumitras, Priya Narasimhan
IPPS
2006
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Improving cooperation in peer-to-peer systems using social networks
Rational and selfish nodes in P2P systems usually lack effective incentives to cooperate, contributing to the increase of free-riders, and degrading the system performance. Variou...
Wenyu Wang, Li Zhao, Ruixi Yuan
FPL
2008
Springer
111views Hardware» more  FPL 2008»
15 years 3 months ago
Sampling from the exponential distribution using independent Bernoulli variates
The exponential distribution is a key distribution in many event-driven Monte-Carlo simulations, where it is used to model the time between random events in the system. This paper...
David B. Thomas, Wayne Luk
CODES
2009
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Building heterogeneous reconfigurable systems with a hardware microkernel
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have long held the promise of allowing designers to create systems with performance levels close to custom circuits but with a softwarelike ...
Jason Agron, David L. Andrews
BMCBI
2007
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15 years 2 months ago
Versatile annotation and publication quality visualization of protein complexes using POLYVIEW-3D
Background: Macromolecular visualization as well as automated structural and functional annotation tools play an increasingly important role in the post-genomic era, contributing ...
Aleksey A. Porollo, Jaroslaw Meller