Accurate and reliable knowledge of time is fundamental to cyber-physical systems for sensing, control, performance, and energy efficient integration of computing and communications. This simple
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News from last year. Aug. 26, 2013 11:52 a.m. ET A glitch in time synchronization caused German exchange operator Deutsche BoerseAG DB1.XE -0.16% ‘s Eurex
Read moreWhy is clock synchronization so important in big data
Distributed transactions have historically been implemented by the database community in the manner pioneered by the architects of System R* [22] in the 1980s. The primary mechanism
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A common configuration for FSMLabs TimeKeeper customers is to cross-couple time sources in New Jersey and New York City or London and Slough or Chicago and
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What it did was reinforce a point about the sociology of management: From cars to space shuttles, from offshore oil wells to nuclear reactors, the people who
Read moreThe story we were told at a bank that I cannot name is that all their time synchronization was the domain of an engineer tucked
Read moreMeasuring NTPd in the Cloud II
The problem with ntpd is the sudden performance degradations which can occur when conditions deviate from ‘ideal’. We have detailed these robustness issues of ntpd in prior work,
Read moreMeasuring Clock Synchronization in the Cloud- NTPd versus TimeKeeper
Measured on Amazon EC2. Standard deviation from reference time over 20 hours TimeKeeper: 23 microseconds NTPd: 6000 microseconds (6 milliseconds)
Read moreManaged services (and cloud) for financial industry
The nature of data security is constantly changing for the financial industry. With the ever-growing need for tighter IT infrastructure security and the increasing prevalence
Read moreCassandra Cluster Synchronization
Cassandra is a highly-distributable NoSQL database with tunable consistency. What makes it highly distributable makes it also, in part, vulnerable: the whole deployment must run on
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