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

All Things Distributed

Aug 11 - " On the Naming and Binding of Network Destinations ", Saltzer, J. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001. Nov 9 - Using Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks of Computers , Roger M. RFC 1498, August 1993. Needham and Michael D.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

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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.

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Brendan Gregg

At my employer we sometimes use SR-IOV for direct network interface access, and NVMe for direct disk access. Most of the changes since rc7 are actually networking fixes, the bulk of them to various drivers. When I first joined Sun in 2001, it was believed that Sun was too big to fail, as well.