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"DSM64: A DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY SYSTEM IN USER-SPACE" by Stephen Alan Holsappledigitalcommons.calpoly.edu
This paper presents DSM64: a lazy release consistent software distributed shared memory (SDSM) system built entirely in user-space. The DSM64 system is capable of executing threaded applications implemented with pthreads on a cluster of networked machi... -
The Rainbow Connection | The Scientist Magazine®the-scientist.com
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Airbnb valued at $13B ahead of staff stock salecnbc.com
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High-Throughput, Thread-Safe, LRU Caching — eBay Tech Blogebaytechblog.com
A couple of years ago I implemented an LRU cache to lookup keyword IDs for keywords. The data structure turned out to be an interesting one because the required throughput was high enough to eliminate heavy use of locks and […] -
If Hemingway wrote JavaScript • @ fatbyfat.xxx
The following article was written by my good friend and colleague, Angus Croll. Angus works on the web core team at twitter, talks at conferences around the world, and runs an amazing blog on javascript. Beyond this, he’s also a huge book... | @ fat | ... -
Google Couldn't Kill 20 Percent Time Even if It Wanted To | WIREDwired.com
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How to become a programmer, or the art of Googling wellokepi.wordpress.com
*Note: Please read all italicized technical words as if they were in a foreign language. The fall semester of my senior year, I was having some serious self-confidence issues. I had slowly come to ... - crimsonglow.ca
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Calories in, calories outpossiblywrong.wordpress.com
Introduction How do we lose (or gain) weight? Is it really as simple as "calories in, calories out" (i.e., eat less than you burn), or is what you eat more important than how much? Is "3500 calor... -
Doctor in New York City Tests Positive for Ebolanytimes.com
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Easter Island's ancient inhabitants weren't so lonely after allreuters.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They lived on a remote dot of land in the middle of the Pacific, 2,300 miles (3,700 km) west of South America and 1,100 miles (1,770 km) from the closest island, erecting huge stone