by Sergey Blagodurov, Mike Ignatowski, Valentina Salapura on Sep 22, 2021 | Tags: Accelerators, Coherence, Datacenters, Interconnects, Memory, Networking, Systems
Despite being hidden from the end user, datacenters are ubiquitous in today’s life. Massive datacenter installations are the driving force behind social networking, search, streaming services, e-commerce, cloud, and the gig economy. Today’s datacenters are as...
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by Vijay Nagarajan, Boris Grot, Vasilis Gavrielatos, Antonis Katsarakis on May 12, 2020 | Tags: Coherence, Consistency, Datacenters, Distributed Systems, Key-value-stores, Replication, Shared Memory
One of the long-standing debates in computer systems is the shared nothing vs shared memory debate. Should parallel computers provide the illusion of shared memory or should they do away with support for sharing? The debate has seen a resurgence with the rise of...
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