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Suggestions for final year project (something in cloud) [closed]
I'm interested in cloud and distributed computing. I recently heard about Apache Hadoop. Also checked HBase, Hive, Cloudera and other extensions. Can i take any of these topic, extend it further for ...
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What it takes to make a big distributed system? [closed]
I work for a company for the past 7 months, where I write a bit of code everyday in Java and somettimes Python.
I want to make a Application like Splunk. It gathers log from several hosts and then ...
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Optimistic work sharing on sparsely distributed systems
What would a system like BOINC look like if it were written today?
At the time BOINC was written, databases were the primary choice for maintaining a shared state and concurrency among nodes.
Since ...
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Good books to learn distributed computing
Are there any good books to learn about distributed computing ? I work on large scale java applications. Recently my colleagues started talking about things like distributed cache, load balancing, ...
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Alternatives to code migration for distributed systems
I know code migration can allow a distributed system to adapt itself to changes of the system.
Are there other alternative mechanisms that allows the system to adapt itself to different machines?
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What exactly is distributed computing?
So I'm a senior in college and a couple of weeks ago, I interviewed at Microsoft for an entry-level SDE position. While most of the interviews (out of the total 7) were on the general principles of ...
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Scalable distributed file system for blobs like images and other documents
Cassandra & HBase both do not efficiently support storage of blobs like images. Storing directly on HDFS stresses the Namenode because of huge number of files. Facebook uses Haystack for images ...
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How to effectively (but minimally) *simulate* a distributed computing environment?
I am doing some personal research on Byzantine Faults. I am trying out algorithms from various research papers which present algorithms for consensus in distributed systems like this one. For this i ...
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How to implement a lightweight clustered architecture for a distributed application
I currently have a distributed application that runs on multiple embedded PCs. The whole application is composed of one master server and several nodes. Each node is an embedded PC that runs Windows 7 ...
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Promoting scalability in small business applications
I am part of a small software company that specializes in small to medium-sized business applications and my experience with distributed architectures/SOA is limited. Please let me know if I'm going ...
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List of good (and freely available) papers on distributed systems [closed]
I was wondering if any body could point me to some relevant papers on designing distributed systems. I am looking for literature in the league of Amazon's Dynamo paper and Google's MapReduce.
I am ...
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Is there a canonical book on distributing computing in Java?
I have spent the last 2-1/2 years building a distributed application. We started testing it a couple months ago and we're moving it into production. Everything runs fairly well, but it could ...
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I need help understanding what the goal of my project is, and what some possible implementation options are
I am tasked with deploying the Java Pet Store in a distributed system, using two or three computers. However, I am not sure how to do this. Suppose I wanted to just add RMI functionality so one system ...
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Client–server models and Client-centric models
For distributed applications, emphasis mine:
Where classic software systems of the past century were mostly based
on Client–server models and Client-centric application development,
both ...
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Does the new field of “Autonomic Computing” strike you as an achievable goal with current computing power?
Autonomic Computing is mainly studied in academia. IBM does have a fairly advanced DB2 system with fail-safe capability. What do you think is the main challenge with Autonomic Computing? And what PL ...
