Abstract: Master-worker distributed computing systems use task replication to mitigate the effect of slow workers on job compute time. The master node groups tasks into batches and assigns each batch ...

Amanda Kay Montoya is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Center for Open Science. She receives funding from the ...

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Abstract: The ever-increasing scale and more stringent latency requirements of mobile computing tasks have driven the recent development of distributed edge computing. In distributed edge computing, a ...

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While running some perf tests for Segment Replication I hit an Exception while computing a metadata snapshot off of the primary's latest segment infos. I think this is caused by the primary missing a ...

The prediction of complex nonlinear dynamical systems with the help of machine learning techniques has become increasingly popular. In particular, reservoir computing turned out to be a very promising ...

At the recent CHI2011 conference, I was asked to serve as a panelist to discuss the issue of replication of research results. As part of this RepliCHI panel, I wrote an essay arguing for how ...