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Distributed Computing in Practice: The Condor Experience

by Douglas Thain, Todd Tannenbaum, Miron Livny , 2005
"... Since 1984, the Condor project has enabled ordinary users to do extraordinary computing. Today, the project continues to explore the social and technical problems of cooperative computing on scales ranging from the desktop to the world-wide computational Grid. In this paper, we provide the history a ..."
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and philosophy of the Condor project and describe how it has interacted with other projects and evolved along with the field of distributed computing. We outline the core components of the Condor system and describe how the technology of computing must correspond to social structures. Throughout, we reflect

Dynamo: amazon’s highly available key-value store

by Giuseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, Gunavardhan Kakulapati, Avinash Lakshman, Alex Pilchin, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Peter Vosshall, Werner Vogels - IN PROC. SOSP , 2007
"... Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we face at Amazon.com, one of the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significant financial consequences and impacts customer trust. The Amazon.com platform, which provides services for many web sites ..."
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sites worldwide, is implemented on top of an infrastructure of tens of thousands of servers and network components located in many datacenters around the world. At this scale, small and large components fail continuously and the way persistent state is managed in the face of these failures drives

Tapestry: An infrastructure for fault-tolerant wide-area location and routing

by Ben Y. Zhao, John Kubiatowicz, Anthony D. Joseph , 2001
"... In today’s chaotic network, data and services are mobile and replicated widely for availability, durability, and locality. Components within this infrastructure interact in rich and complex ways, greatly stressing traditional approaches to name service and routing. This paper explores an alternative ..."
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In today’s chaotic network, data and services are mobile and replicated widely for availability, durability, and locality. Components within this infrastructure interact in rich and complex ways, greatly stressing traditional approaches to name service and routing. This paper explores

The Cricket Location-Support System

by Nissanka B. Priyantha, Anit Chakraborty, Hari Balakrishnan , 2000
"... This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of Cricket, a location-support system for in-building, mobile, locationdependent applications. It allows applications running on mobile and static nodes to learn their physical location by using listeners that hear and analyze informatio ..."
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to advertise this information to; it does not rely on any centralized management or control and there is no explicit coordination between beacons; it provides information to devices regardless of their type of network connectivity; and each Cricket device is made from off-the-shelf components and costs less

Kernel-Based Object Tracking

by Dorin Comaniciu, Visvanathan Ramesh, Peter Meer , 2003
"... A new approach toward target representation and localization, the central component in visual tracking of non-rigid objects, is proposed. The feature histogram based target representations are regularized by spatial masking with an isotropic kernel. The masking induces spatially-smooth similarity fu ..."
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A new approach toward target representation and localization, the central component in visual tracking of non-rigid objects, is proposed. The feature histogram based target representations are regularized by spatial masking with an isotropic kernel. The masking induces spatially-smooth similarity

A hard-core predicate for all one-way functions

by Oded Goldreich, Leonid A. Levint - In Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing , 1989
"... Abstract rity of f. In fact, for inputs (to f*) of practical size, the pieces effected by f are so small A central tool in constructing pseudorandom that f can be inverted (and the “hard-core” generators, secure encryption functions, and bit computed) by exhaustive search. in other areas are “hard-c ..."
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Abstract rity of f. In fact, for inputs (to f*) of practical size, the pieces effected by f are so small A central tool in constructing pseudorandom that f can be inverted (and the “hard-core” generators, secure encryption functions, and bit computed) by exhaustive search. in other areas are “hard-core

Serverless Network File Systems

by Thomas E. Anderson, Michael D. Dahlin, Jeanna M. Neefe, David A. Patterson, Drew S. Roselli, Randolph Y. Wang - ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS , 1995
"... In this paper, we propose a new paradigm for network file system design, serverless network file systems. While traditional network file systems rely on a central server machine, a serverless system utilizes workstations cooperating as peers to provide all file system services. Any machine in the sy ..."
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In this paper, we propose a new paradigm for network file system design, serverless network file systems. While traditional network file systems rely on a central server machine, a serverless system utilizes workstations cooperating as peers to provide all file system services. Any machine

CEDAR: a Core-Extraction Distributed Ad hoc Routing Algorithm

by Prasun Sinha, Raghupathy Sivakumar, Vaduvur Bharghavan - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications , 1999
"... Absiract—CEDARis an algorithm for QoS routing in ad hoc network environments. It has three key components: (a) the establishment and main-tenance of a setf-organizing routing infrastructure catted the core for per-forming route computations, (b) the propagation of the link-state of stable high-bandw ..."
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Absiract—CEDARis an algorithm for QoS routing in ad hoc network environments. It has three key components: (a) the establishment and main-tenance of a setf-organizing routing infrastructure catted the core for per-forming route computations, (b) the propagation of the link-state of stable high

Specifying Distributed Software Architectures

by Jeff Magee, Naranker Dulay, Susan Eisenbach, Jeff Kramer , 1995
"... There is a real need for clear and sound design specifications of distributed systems at the architectural level. This is the level of the design which deals with the high-level organisation of computational elements and the interactions between those elements. The paper presents the Darwin notation ..."
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structures and dynamic structures which may evolve during execution. The central abstractions managed by Darwin are components and services. Services are the means by which components interact. In addition to its use in specifying the architecture of a distributed system, Darwin has an operational semantics

Arb: A software environment for sequence data

by Wolfgang Ludwig, Oliver Strunk, Ralf Westram, Lothar Richter, Harald Meier, Arno Buchner, Tina Lai, Wolfram Foè Rster, Igor Brettske, Stefan Gerber, Anton W. Ginhart, Oliver Gross, Silke Grumann, Stefan Hermann, Ralf Jost, Andreas Koè Nig, Thomas Liss, Ralph Luè Ûmann, Michael May, Bjoè Rn Nonhoff, Boris Reichel, Robert Strehlow, Ros Stamatakis, Norbert Stuckmann, Er Vilbig, Michael Lenke, Thomas Ludwig, Arndt Bode - Nucleic Acids Res , 2004
"... The ARB (from Latin arbor, tree) project was initiated almost 10 years ago. The ARB program package comprises a variety of directly interacting software tools for sequence database maintenance and analysis which are controlled by a common graphical user interface. Although it was initially designed ..."
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for ribosomal RNA data, it can be used for any nucleic and amino acid sequence data as well. A central database contains processed (aligned) primary structure data. Any additional descriptive data can be stored in database ®elds assigned to the individual sequences or linked via local or worldwide networks. A
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