A multi-institutional team of researchers led by MIT has found a new way to speed up data retrieval in large databases using machine learning. The researchers used machine learning to build better ...

"Smash: Flexible, Fast, and Resource-Efficient Placement and Lookup of Distributed Storage," by Yi Liu et al., introduces a storage system that is the first of its kind to apply minimal perfect ...

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In the realm of computer science, it’s hard to go too far without encountering hashing or hash functions. The concept appears throughout security, from encryption to password storage to crypto, and ...

This work presents an object placement and lookup method that achieves full placement flexibility, balanced load, low ...

Cryptographic hash functions are crucial in ensuring the security and integrity of information across diverse industries. They protect sensitive financial transactions in banking, verify data ...

What is Bitcoin’s hash rate? The amount of processing and computing power being given to the network through mining is referred to as Bitcoin’s hash rate. A fixed-length alphanumeric code representing ...