Distributed Systems Page 1 DS 2006; Ch1 16-Jan-06 Timo Alanko, 2006 1 Distributed
Systems Spring 2006 Timo Alanko 16-Jan-06 2 Sources of material • Tanenbaum, van …

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

Current cryptocurrencies, starting with Bitcoin, build a decentralized blockchain-based
transaction ledger, maintained through proofs-of-work that also generate a monetary supply …

We give a denotational framework (a" meta model") within which certain properties of
models of computation can be compared. It describes concurrent processes in general terms …

Real-time cooperative editing systems allow multiple users to view and edit the same
text/graphic/image/multimedia document at the same time for multiple sites connected by …

Deep neural networks have been shown to achieve state-of-the-art performance in several
machine learning tasks. Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is the preferred optimization …

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 …

Deep learning with a large number of parametersrequires distributed training, where model
accuracy and runtimeare two important factors to be considered. However, there hasbeen …

(56) References Cited into traditional electronic mail on the client end. The col US PATENT
DOCUMENTS laborative electronic mail allows users to have online dis cussions without the …

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 …