A blockchain is a distributed system that achieves strong security guarantees in storing,
managing, and processing data. All blockchains achieve a common goal: building a …

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms and" serverless" cloud computing are becoming
increasingly popular. Current FaaS offerings are targeted at stateless functions that do …

Cassandra is a distributed storage system for managing very large amounts of structured
data spread out across many commodity servers, while providing highly available service …

In recent years, grid technology has emerged as an important tool for solving compute‐
intensive problems within the scientific community and in industry. To further the …

Using microwaves to treat metal-based materials is rapidly emerging as an energy-efficient
tool to interact with metals for a number of processes such as sintering, melting, brazing …

This paper studies dynamic BFT, where replicas can join and leave the system dynamically,
a primitive that is nowadays increasingly needed. We provide a formal treatment for dynamic …

We review container technology and the challenge of service discovery in micro service
architectures and introduce Serf node, a fully decentralized open source solution to the …

Technology enhancements and the growing breadth of application workflows running on
high-performance computing (HPC) platforms drive the development of new data services …

The fast growth in the amount of connected devices with computing capabilities in the past
years has enabled the emergence of a new computing layer at the Edge. Despite being …

Partial failures occur frequently in cloud systems and can cause serious damage including
inconsistency and data loss. Unfortunately, these failures are not well understood. Nor can …