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		<title>Gray Sort: The Most Fun I&#8217;ve Ever Had with (a few racks of) Computers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 20:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Things have been quite on the blog, but not because there has not been a lot to say.  In fact, there has been so much happening that I have not had the idle cycles to write about them.  However, I do want to highlight some of the interesting things that have taken place over the &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://idleprocess.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/gray-sort-the-most-fun-ive-ever-had-with-a-few-racks-of-computers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Congratulations to Haifeng Yu</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The great thing about working with great students is following their successes throughout their career. I just learned that Haifeng Yu was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at National University of Singapore (NUS). Haifeng was my first graduating PhD student and now the first to receive tenure.  Overall, Haifeng has always been drawn to &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://idleprocess.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/congratulations-to-haifeng-yu/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Doing &#8220;Big Science&#8221; In Academia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently, there has been a lot of handwringing in the systems community about the work that we can do in the age of mega-scale data centers and cloud computing.  The worry is that the really interesting systems today consist of tens of thousands of machines interconnected both within data centers and across the wide area. &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://idleprocess.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/doing-big-science-in-academia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>SIGCOMM 2010 Travel Grants and VISA Workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 21:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This year, I had the pleasure of serving on the SIGCOMM 2010 program committee.  I may write more about the experience later, but the short version is that I really enjoyed reading the papers and was particularly impressed by the deep discussions at the two-day program committee last month.  K.K. Ramakrishnan and Geoff Voelker did &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://idleprocess.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/sigcomm-2010-travel-grants-and-visa-workshop/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PortLand Code Release</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 17:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The amount of interest in data centers and data center networking continues to grow.  For the past decade plus, the most savvy Internet companies have been focusing on infrastructure.  Essentially, planetary scale services such as search, social networking, and e-commerce require a tremendous amount of computation and storage.  When operating at the scale of tens &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://idleprocess.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/portland-code-release/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Achieving Adaptive Multipath Forwarding in the Data Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Later this month, we will be presenting our work on Hedera at NSDI 2010. The goal of the work is to improve data center network performance under a range of dynamically shifting communication patterns. Below I will present a quick overview of the work starting with some of the motivation for it. The promise of &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://idleprocess.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/achieving-adaptive-multipath-forwarding-in-the-data-center/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Achilles&#8217; Heel of Performance Isolation in the Cloud</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I just read an interesting article &#8220;Has Amazon EC2 Become Oversubscribed?&#8221; The article describes one company&#8217;s relatively large-scale usage of EC2 over a three-year period.  Apparently, over the first 18 months, EC2 small instances provided sufficient performance for their largely I/O bound network servers.  Recently however, they have increasingly run into problems with &#8220;noisy neighbors&#8221;. &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://idleprocess.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/the-achilles-heel-of-performance-isolation-in-the-cloud/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Go to Graduate School and How to Get into the Program of your Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is the time of year when applications to graduate schools are due and I see a lot of both misinformation and lack of information among applicants.  I thought it might be valuable to put together some advice on the application process from &#8220;the other side,&#8221; someone who spends a lot of time looking at &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://idleprocess.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/why-go-to-graduate-school-and-how-to-get-into-the-program-of-your-dreams/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Presentation Summary &#8220;High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons Learned at Facebook&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently, we were fortunate to host Jeff Rothschild, the Vice President of Technology at Facebook, for a visit for the CNS lecture series.  Jeff&#8217;s talk, &#8220;High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons Learned at Facebook&#8221; was highly detailed, providing real insights into the Facebook architecture. Jeff spoke to a packed house of faculty, staff, and students interested in the technology and research &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://idleprocess.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/presentation-summary-high-performance-at-massive-scale-lessons-learned-at-facebook/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Harsha Madhyastha and Colleagues Win Best Paper Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Harsha Madhyastha&#8216;s paper &#8220;Moving Beyond End-to-End Path Information to Optimize CDN Performance&#8221; won the best paper award at IMC 2009.  The paper presents measurements information from Google&#8217;s production CDN to show that redirecting clients to the nearest CDN node will not necessarily result in the lowest latency.  Harsha and his colleagues built a tool called &#8230; &#8230; <a href="https://idleprocess.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/harsha-madhyastha-and-colleagues-win-best-paper-award/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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