Sharing interesting papers

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Kelly Sommers

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Jul 19, 2012, 3:44:39 PM7/19/12
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I thought I would open a discussion to share some of the papers I've read that I've found interesting and also give an opportunity for others to share as well and maybe have discussions on some topics people find interesting.

Here are a couple I've read and plan to re-read several times since I seem to grasp a little more each time:

Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store

Sagas (this one I'm most familiar with so far)

Kangaroo Transaction Model: A mobile transaction model that captures both data and movement behavior

What papers have you enjoyed?  :) Or any comments about the ones above?

Andy Gross

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Jul 19, 2012, 5:08:19 PM7/19/12
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This is a good "Paxos made X" paper that focuses on actual implementation issues:


- Andy

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Kelly Sommers

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Jul 23, 2012, 11:00:21 PM7/23/12
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Nice one!

Here are some papers on GPGPU. I'm curious about crunching data on GPU's and eventually that would need more than one system so I figured it was still relevant to this list. I'm curious whether GPU's have a place in databases for querying, like for example Solr's Inverted Index. Edward Ribeiro linked me to these on Twitter.

Using Graphics Processors for High Performance IR Query Processing

Efficient Lists Intersection by CPU-GPU Cooperative Computing

Carter Schonwald

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Jul 24, 2012, 2:34:51 AM7/24/12
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in the name of information overload, heres some recent proceedings i'm randomly sampling from as i have time :)

(i'm linking to the most recent ones which public / not pay walled :), links to all the papers are via these sites )
icml 2012 icml.cc/2012/
aaai 2012 http://www.aaai.org/Library/AAAI/aaai12contents.php  (the webpage says 2011, but its 2012)

theres a few other nifty ones that are vaguely relevant to this list, but these have OOOdles of relevant papers :)
(i'm a bit underopinionated on individual papers until i've read the entire subfield :) )

cheers
-Carter

Matt Blair

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Aug 12, 2012, 1:15:34 AM8/12/12
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Here are some papers related to ZooKeeper, which I've been studying recently:

ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems:
http://static.usenix.org/events/usenix10/tech/full_papers/Hunt.pdf

Dynamic Reconfiguration of Primary/Backup Clusters:
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc12/atc12-final74.pdf

Zab: High-performance broadcast for primary-backup systems:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5958223

Dissecting Zab:
http://research.yahoo.com/files/YL-2010-007.pdf

ZooKeeper's atomic broadcast protocol: Theory and practice:
http://www.tcs.hut.fi/Studies/T-79.5001/reports/2012-deSouzaMedeiros.pdf

There's also a Zab implementation on top of Riak Core:

https://github.com/jtuple/riak_zab

-Matt

Hoop

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Aug 14, 2012, 5:30:46 PM8/14/12
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Love the links here. I cam across this list over the weekend: http://dancres.org/reading_list.html
 
 
The title is a bit hyperbolic but it did prompt me to sit down and read up on Pregel, Percolator and Dremel.
 
Dremel: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~vldb2010/proceedings/files/papers/R29.pdf - I find dremel interesting primarily because of the novel approach to storing data for fast queries.
 
I've been building a longer list on Mendeley, I just copied it all into a public group so others can add to it: http://www.mendeley.com/groups/2475971/distributed-systems/
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