Selected advanced topics including: Parallel computing; network security; client-server computing; compression; web applications; wireless and mobile computing.

AWS recently announced a distributed map for Step Functions, a solution for large-scale parallel data processing. Optimized for S3, the new feature of the AWS orchestration service targets ...

Journaling is a widely used technique to increase file system robustness against metadata and/or data corruptions. While the overhead of journaling can be masked by the page cache for small-scale ...

The Parallel & Distributed Computing Lab (PDCL) conducts research at the intersection of high performance computing and big data processing. Our group works in the broad area of Parallel & Distributed ...

DeepSeek has released the Fire-Flyer File System (3FS), an open source project that is a parallel file system that improves the efficiency of AI training and inference performance.

When it comes to parallel file systems, few people understand the evolution of challenges better than Sven Oehme, who was part of the original team at IBM building GPFS. Following almost a quarter ...

Just about a year ago, I first mentioned TidyFS, a new, small distributed file system under development by Microsoft Research. Later this week at the Usenix '11 conference, Microsoft researchers ...