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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001. Jul 6 - End-To-End Arguments in System Design , by J. Saltzer, D. Reed, and D.

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MICRO 2019 Trip Report

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The best paper runner-up was “ Dynamic Multi-Resolution Data Storage ”. . Two Test of Time awards went to: “Speculative Lock Elision: Enabling Highly Concurrent Multithreaded Execution” published at MICRO 2001 by Ravi Rajwar and James R. Albonesi.