Month: September 2016
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Pilot: A Framework that Understands How to Do Performance Benchmarks The Right Way
Carrying out even the simplest performance benchmark requires considerable knowledge of statistics and computer systems, and painstakingly following many error-prone steps, which are distinct skill sets yet essential for getting statistically valid results. As a result, many performance measurements in peer-reviewed publications are flawed. Among many problems, they fall short in one or more of…
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RESAR: Reliable Storage at Exabyte Scale
Stored data needs to be protected against device failure and irrecoverable sector read errors, yet doing so at exabyte scale can be challenging given the large number of failures that must be handled. We have developed RESAR (Robust, Efficient, Scalable, Autonomous, Reliable) storage, an approach to storage system redundancy that only uses XOR-based parity and…
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Bulletproof Radio: Say GeNOme to Cancer with David Haussler
Why you should listen – David Haussler is a human genome expert and developer of new statistical and algorithmic methods to explore molecular function, evolution and disease process in the genome. David and his team posted the first publicly available computational assembly of the human genome sequence as collaborators on the international Human Genome Project.…