Category Archives: communications

Fault tolerant patent application for virtual machine

Posted on January 4, 2009 by admin

[0018]For incoming network packets, the following is done during the logging mode. When a packet is received, an event-request is posted for the VMM, at Block 210. When the VMM processes the event, it stops the VM, synchronizes the guest … Continue reading →

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future of the data center

Posted on October 16, 2008 by admin

This article from Ars Technica discusses a talk over the summer by Merrill Lynch’s chief technology architect, Jeffrey Birnbaum on “stateless cloud computing” – most concretely on distributed file systems. Birnbaum believes that one of the key foundational elements of … Continue reading →

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Reliable broadcast algorithms: after 20 years

Posted on October 5, 2008 by admin

New paper with short description of the Chang/Maxmchuk algorithm I have been championing for 20 years or more.

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