Hypertable is an open source project to develop massively parallel high performance database platform. Its architecture more or less follows Google's bigtable design.
The project goal is to bring
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The TIPC project is an Open Source implementation of the Transparent Inter Process Communication (TIPC) protocol. TIPC is designed for use in clustered computer environments, allowing designers to cr
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OpenSAF is an open source project established to develop a base platform middleware consistent with Service Availability™ Forum (SA Forum™) specifications, under the LGPLv2.1 license. The OpenSAF Fou
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We describe our experiences with the Chubby lock service, which is intended to provide coarse-grained locking as well as reliable (though low-volume) storage for a loosely-coupled distributed system.
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Honeybees somehow manage to efficiently collect a lot of nectar with limited resources and no central command — after all, the queen bee is too busy laying eggs to oversee something as mundane as whe
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What Drives Performance in HPC? That's a good question. What does drive performance in HPC? On a qualitative basis its easy to answer. A faster proce
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In a blog post, Microsoft’s Dare Obasanjo shared his notes from the keynote session MapReduce, BigTable, and Other Distributed System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets by Jeff Dean.rnrnThe
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Google's Bigtable, a distributed storage system for structured data, is a very effective mechanism for storing very large amounts of data in a distri
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