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Microsoft Research Blog
Project Catapult servers available to academic researchers
By Derek Chiou, Partner Architect, Microsoft At this year’s Supercomputing 2015 Conference in Austin, Texas, Microsoft is announcing the availability of Project Catapult clusters to academic researchers through the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at…
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What Does ‘Big Data’ Mean and Who Will Win?
“Big Data” means different things to different people. To me, it means one of four totally different problems: Big volumes of data, but “small” analytics, Big analytics on big volumes of data, Big velocity, Big…
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The New Industrial Revolution: Computing in Pole Position
We are living in a world that is witnessing an incredible pace of innovation, where computing research is playing the central role. Ambitions are not just high from a technical perspective, but also from a…
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Consistency in Distributed Systems
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Analyzing the Performance of an Anycast CDN
Microsoft Research Blog
The Evolution of Bing’s ObjectStore
By Vikas Sabharwal and Vineet Pruthi, Microsoft Shared Platform Group In late 2011, Bing’s shared platform team started looking at different solutions for distributed NoSQL stores. We needed a fast, unified, distributed key value-store that is…