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Ling Liu's SC13 paper "Large Graph Processing Without the Overhead" featured by HPCwire.
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Another list highlighting Open Source Software Releases.
Second GraphLab workshop should be even bigger than the first! GraphLab is a new programming framework for graph-style data analytics.
ISTC-CC Abstract
Don't Settle for Eventual Consistency
Communications of the ACM (CACM), 57(5), May 2014.
Wyatt Lloyd, Michael J. Freedman*, Michael Kaminsky^, David G. Andersen†
Facebook
*
Princeton University
^ Intel Labs
† Carnegie Mellon University
Geo-replicated storage provides copies of the same data at multiple, geographically distinct locations. Facebook, for example, geo-replicates its data (profiles, friends lists, likes, etc.) to data centers on the east and west coasts of the United States, and in Europe. In each data center, a tier of separate Web servers accepts browser requests and then handles those requests by reading and writing data from the storage system, as shown in figure 1.
Geo-replication brings two key benefits to Web services: fault tolerance and low latency. It provides fault tolerance through redundancy: if one data center fails, others can continue to provide the service. It provides low latency through proximity: clients can be directed to and served by a nearby data center to avoid speed-of-light delays associated with cross-country or round-the-globe communication. ...read more
FULL PAPER: pdf
