Dryad is an attempt to make parallel programming easier by providing a lower-layer building blocks. It works as a “OS” layer over a “hardware” layer of computation cluster. The application can therefore built upon it.
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Chen et al (2010) Generic and Automatic Address Configuration for Data Center Networks (SIGCOMM)
In a data center of a large number of nodes, a large number of address configuration is needed. In order to avoid manual configuration of these addresses, this paper investigates how can we derive the correct MAC-to-IP address mapping.
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The Elements of Programming Style
Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger / 1974
As said in the preface, this book is mimicking Stunk and White. And also align with Stunk and White, what this book advocates is to make your program as short as possible, so that it can be clear.
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Tavakoli et al (2009) Applying NOX to the Datacenter (HotNets)
This paper argues whether we are necessary to use specialized solution for data center network.
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Log of numbers
It is well known to some of us: When you are dealing with numbers in computer, the floating point arithmetics makes you lost the precision. For example, adding a bunch of small numbers (e.g. a million of millionth) to a large number never gives an accurate result, unless you use...
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