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This paper introduces the atomic Write and Read Next ($\text{WRN}_{k}$) deterministic shared memory object, that for any $k\ge3$, is stronger than read-write registers, but is unable to implement $2$-processor consensus. In particular, it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Yehuda Afek , Eli Daian , Eli Gafni

We consider the task of assigning unique integers to a group of processes in an asynchronous distributed system of a total of $n$ processes prone to crashes that communicate through shared read-write registers. In the Renaming problem, an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Bogdan S. Chlebus , Dariusz R. Kowalski

Finding a fixed point to a nonexpansive operator, i.e., $x^*=Tx^*$, abstracts many problems in numerical linear algebra, optimization, and other areas of scientific computing. To solve fixed-point problems, we propose ARock, an algorithmic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-03 Zhimin Peng , Yangyang Xu , Ming Yan , Wotao Yin

Prediction of medical codes from clinical notes is both a practical and essential need for every healthcare delivery organization within current medical systems. Automating annotation will save significant time and excessive effort spent by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Byung-Hak Kim , Varun Ganapathi

Common implementations of core memory allocation components, like the Linux buddy system, handle concurrent allocation/release requests by synchronizing threads via spin-locks. This approach is clearly not prone to scale with large thread…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Romolo Marotta , Mauro Ianni , Alessandro Pellegrini , Andrea Scarselli , Francesco Quaglia

We introduce the Adaptive Massively Parallel Computation (AMPC) model, which is an extension of the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model. At a high level, the AMPC model strengthens the MPC model by storing all messages sent within a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Soheil Behnezhad , Laxman Dhulipala , Hossein Esfandiari , Jakub Łącki , Warren Schudy , Vahab Mirrokni

This paper introduces OPTIMUM-DERAM, a highly consistent, scalable, secure, and decentralized shared memory solution. Traditional distributed shared memory implementations offer multi-object support by multi-threading a single object memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Nicolas Nicolaou , Kishori M. Konwar , Moritz Grundei , Aleksandr Bezobchuk , Muriel Médard , Sriram Vishwanath

A shared read/write register emulation provides the illusion of shared-memory on top of message-passing models. The main hurdle with such emulations is dealing with server faults in the system. Several crash-tolerant register emulations in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Saptaparni Kumar , Jennifer L. Welch

A new single-letter achievable rate region is proposed for the two-user discrete memoryless multiple-access channel(MAC) with noiseless feedback. The proposed region includes the Cover-Leung rate region [1], and it is shown that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Ramji Venkataramanan , S. Sandeep Pradhan

Large Language Models (LLMs) have improved programming efficiency, but their performance degrades significantly as requirements scale; when faced with multi-modal documents containing hundreds of scenarios, LLMs often produce incorrect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Weiyu Kong , Yun Lin , Xiwen Teoh , Duc-Minh Nguyen , Ruofei Ren , Jiaxin Chang , Haoxu Hu , Haoyu Chen

As dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and other current transistor-based memories approach their scalability limits, the search for alternative storage methods becomes increasingly urgent. Phase-change memory (PCM) emerges as a promising…

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In a modern distributed storage system, storage nodes are organized in racks, and the cross-rack communication dominates the system bandwidth. In We study the rack-aware storage system where all storage nodes are organized in racks and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Liyang Zhou , Zhifang Zhang

Rateless Multiple Access (RMA) is a novel non-orthogonal multiple access framework that is promising for massive access in Internet of Things (IoT) due to its high efficiency and low complexity. In the framework, after certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhaoyang Zhang , Xianbin Wang , Yu Zhang , Yan Chen

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems critically depend on effective document chunking strategies to balance retrieval quality, latency, and operational cost. Traditional chunking approaches, such as fixed-size, rule-based, or fully…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Uday Allu , Sonu Kedia , Tanmay Odapally , Biddwan Ahmed

Most algorithms designed for shared-memory distributed systems assume the single-writer multi-reader (SWMR) setting where each process is provided with a unique register readable by all. In a system where computation is performed by a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Damien Imbs , Petr Kuznetsov , Thibault Rieutord

This paper considers the communication and storage costs of emulating atomic (linearizable) multi-writer multi-reader shared memory in distributed message-passing systems. The paper contains three main contributions: (1) We present a atomic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-17 Viveck R. Cadambe , Nancy Lynch , Muriel Médard , Peter Musial

We consider synchronous distributed systems in which anonymous processors communicate by shared read-write variables. The goal is to have all the processors assign unique names to themselves. We consider the instances of this problem…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Bogdan S. Chlebus , Gianluca De Marco , Muhammed Talo

Serverless computing is increasingly adopted for its ability to manage complex, event-driven workloads without the need for infrastructure provisioning. However, traditional resource allocation in serverless platforms couples CPU and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Lingxiao Jin , Zinuo Cai , Zebin Chen , Hongyu Zhao , Ruhui Ma

Digital computing-in-memory (DCIM) has emerged as a promising solution for large language model (LLM) acceleration by minimizing data transfers between external DRAM and on-chip accelerators while maintaining high precision for superior…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yan-Cheng Guo , Tian-Sheuan Chang , Jian-Wei Su

Optical wireless communication (OWC) has the potential to provide high communication speeds that support the massive use of the Internet that is expected in the near future. In OWC, optical access points (APs) are deployed on the celling to…