Editorial commentary on distributed-systems research
SafarDB moves replicated-data-type transaction logic onto the FPGA-resident NIC itself, reporting 6.8x latency and throughput gains over RDMA-based replication.
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gcsfs 2026.8.0 makes concurrent prefetching the default read path, turning cloud storage reads from a network wait into a compute-bound operation.
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A systematic review of 122 papers on serverless HPC, AI, and big data maps eight years of research trying to fit compute-intensive workloads onto FaaS.
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A USENIX ATC 2025 paper called Barre shows how three small changes to an old AIMD control loop cut AI-training congestion at 400 Gbps with no new hardware.
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Leaderless and multi-leader consensus is reaching production in Cassandra's Accord and Multi-Raft systems — and it changes what a cloud data API can promise …
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SoCC's 17th edition meets in Singapore in November 2026. Its call for papers is the clearest available statement of what cloud research now considers in scope.
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Archive page for the C4BB4C project — applying cloud infrastructure to computational biology workloads.
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Archive page for the TinOva project — hypervisor abstraction research from the DSA Research Group.
Read more →SafarDB moves replicated-data-type transaction logic onto the FPGA-resident NIC itself, reporting 6.8x latency and throughput gains over RDMA-based replication.
Read more →gcsfs 2026.8.0 makes concurrent prefetching the default read path, turning cloud storage reads from a network wait into a compute-bound operation.
Read more →A systematic review of 122 papers on serverless HPC, AI, and big data maps eight years of research trying to fit compute-intensive workloads onto FaaS.
Read more →