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Shards on a Shoestring: Empirical Characterization of NEAR Protocol Nightshade Sharding on Commodity Hardware
Sohini Sahukar, Om Amit Gandhi, Ioan Raicu
NEAR Protocol's Nightshade architecture targets one million transactions per second (TPS) through horizontal sharding of both state and computation. Published benchmarks were produ…
Simulation-Based Performance Evaluation of Sharded Blockchain Architectures
Om Amit Gandhi, Ioan Raicu
Public blockchains continue to struggle with scalability because improving throughput is not as simple as increasing block size or reducing block interval. Larger blocks increase v…
Optimizing Fine-Grained Parallelism Through Dynamic Load Balancing on Multi-Socket Many-Core Systems
Wenyi Wang, Maxime Gonthier, Poornima Nookala +4
Achieving efficient task parallelism on many-core architectures is an important challenge. The widely used GNU OpenMP implementation of the popular OpenMP parallel programming mode…
HRDBMS: Combining the Best of Modern and Traditional Relational Databases
Jason Arnold, Boris Glavic, Ioan Raicu
HRDBMS is a novel distributed relational database that uses a hybrid model combining the best of traditional distributed relational databases and Big Data analytics platforms such…
Design and Evaluation of a Collective IO Model for Loosely Coupled Petascale Programming
Zhao Zhang, Allan Espinosa, Kamil Iskra +3
Loosely coupled programming is a powerful paradigm for rapidly creating higher-level applications from scientific programs on petascale systems, typically using scripting languages…
Cloud Computing and Grid Computing 360-Degree Compared
Ian Foster, Yong Zhao, Ioan Raicu +1
Cloud Computing has become another buzzword after Web 2.0. However, there are dozens of different definitions for Cloud Computing and there seems to be no consensus on what a Cloud…