This survey covers rollback-recovery techniques that do not require special language
constructs. In the first part of the survey we classify rollback-recovery protocols into …

Replication is a well-known technique to improve the accessibility of Web sites. It generally
offers reduced client latencies and increases a site's availability. However, applying …

Tachyon is a distributed file system enabling reliable data sharing at memory speed across
cluster computing frameworks. While caching today improves read workloads, writes are …

This is the third edition of “Distributed Systems.” In many ways, it is a huge difference
compared to the previous editions, the most important one perhaps being that we have fully …

To be able to fully exploit ever larger computing platforms, modern HPC applications and
system software must be able to tolerate inevitable faults. Historically, MPI implementations …

Generalized snapshot isolation extends snapshot isolation as used in Oracle and other
databases in a manner suitable for replicated databases. While (conventional) snapshot …

As reported by many recent studies, the mean time between failures of future post-petascale
supercomputers is likely to reduce, compared to the current situation. The most popular fault …

In this paper, we present the design of Cilk-NOW, a runtime system that adaptively and
reliably executes functional Cilk programs in parallel on a network of UNIX workstations. Cilk …

Stream processing lies in the backbone of modern businesses, being employed for mission
critical applications such as real-time fraud detection, car-trip fare calculations, traffic …

As cluster computing frameworks such as Spark, Dryad, Flink, and Ray are being deployed
in mission critical applications and on larger and larger clusters, their ability to tolerate …