Data platforms and analytics
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A Key Value Store that Supports Strict SLAs and the Applications that Need it
Emerging datacenter workloads differ from traditional e-commerce workloads in two ways. First, emerging big-science workloads can access networked storage thousands of times for 1 simulation. Even a few slow accesses can slowdown the entire simulation.…
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Skeleton Automata for FPGAs: Reconfiguring without Reconstructing
While the performance opportunities of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for high-volume query processing are well-known, system makers still have to compromise between desired query expressiveness and high compilation effort. The cost of the latter is…
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Tutorial on Location-Based Social Networks
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Microsoft Research Spelling-Correction Data
Strings including before-and-after spelling-correction pairs in English and Japanese, derived automatically by processing keystroke logs collected through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
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A New Way to Get Climate Information
By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center Climate scientists, environmental scientists, governmental officials, shipping companies, business owners, farmers—all need access to accurate information about the weather. The challenge certainly isn’t the availability of data…