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Tars: Timeliness-aware Adaptive Replica Selection for Key-Value Stores
In current large-scale distributed key-value stores, a single end-user
request may lead to key-value access across tens or hundreds of servers. The
tail latency of these key-value accesses is crucial to the user experience and
greatly impacts the revenue. To cut the tail latency, it is crucial for clients
to choose the fastest replica server as much as possible for the service of
each key-value access. Aware of the challenges on the time varying performance
across servers and the herd behaviors, an adaptive replica selection scheme C3
is proposed recently. In C3, feedback from individual servers is brought into
replica ranking to reflect the time-varying performance of servers, and the
distributed rate control and backpressure mechanism is invented. Despite of
C3's good performance, we reveal the timeliness issue of C3, which has large
impacts on both the replica ranking and the rate control, and propose the Tars
(timeliness-aware adaptive replica selection) scheme. Following the same
framework as C3, Tars improves the replica ranking by taking the timeliness of
the feedback information into consideration, as well as revises the rate
control of C3. Simulation results confirm that Tars outperforms C3.Comment: 10pages,submitted to ICDCS 201
Black Holes and Random Matrices
We argue that the late time behavior of horizon fluctuations in large anti-de
Sitter (AdS) black holes is governed by the random matrix dynamics
characteristic of quantum chaotic systems. Our main tool is the
Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, which we use as a simple model of a black hole.
We use an analytically continued partition function as well
as correlation functions as diagnostics. Using numerical techniques we
establish random matrix behavior at late times. We determine the early time
behavior exactly in a double scaling limit, giving us a plausible estimate for
the crossover time to random matrix behavior. We use these ideas to formulate a
conjecture about general large AdS black holes, like those dual to 4D
super-Yang-Mills theory, giving a provisional estimate of the crossover time.
We make some preliminary comments about challenges to understanding the late
time dynamics from a bulk point of view.Comment: 73 pages, 15 figures, minor errors correcte
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Science materials for the gifted in grades two and three
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit
Lost on Purpose
In nine linked nonfiction essays and eight codas, the author seeks to understand the meaning of being lost and the importance of not knowing in an era of instantaneous and ubiquitous information. Through extensive interviews, research, and memoir, the author seeks out those who choose to live lost in order to understand his own penchant for escape. Framed by the mystery of antique maps, these essays find the author in several different locations, from Tasmania to Siberia to Utah. In each, the author meets and spends time with an ambassador of each place before finally attempting to become lost himself
Born in an Infinite Universe: a Cosmological Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
We study the quantum measurement problem in the context of an infinite,
statistically uniform space, as could be generated by eternal inflation. It has
recently been argued that when identical copies of a quantum measurement system
exist, the standard projection operators and Born rule method for calculating
probabilities must be supplemented by estimates of relative frequencies of
observers. We argue that an infinite space actually renders the Born rule
redundant, by physically realizing all outcomes of a quantum measurement in
different regions, with relative frequencies given by the square of the wave
function amplitudes. Our formal argument hinges on properties of what we term
the quantum confusion operator, which projects onto the Hilbert subspace where
the Born rule fails, and we comment on its relation to the oft-discussed
quantum frequency operator. This analysis unifies the classical and quantum
levels of parallel universes that have been discussed in the literature, and
has implications for several issues in quantum measurement theory. It also
shows how, even for a single measurement, probabilities may be interpreted as
relative frequencies in unitary (Everettian) quantum mechanics. We also argue
that after discarding a zero-norm part of the wavefunction, the remainder
consists of a superposition of indistinguishable terms, so that arguably
"collapse" of the wavefunction is irrelevant, and the "many worlds" of
Everett's interpretation are unified into one. Finally, the analysis suggests a
"cosmological interpretation" of quantum theory in which the wave function
describes the actual spatial collection of identical quantum systems, and
quantum uncertainty is attributable to the observer's inability to self-locate
in this collection.Comment: 17 pages, 2 figures; revised version to match published version,
including authorship change. Abstract is abridge
Restorative Rigging and the Safe Indication Account
Typical Gettieresque scenarios involve a subject, S, using a method, M, of believing something, p, where, normally, M is a reliable indicator of the truth of p, yet, in S’s circumstances, M is not reliable: M is deleteriously rigged. A different sort of scenario involves rigging that restores the reliability of a method M that is deleteriously rigged: M is restoratively rigged. Some theorists criticize (among others) the safe indication account of knowledge defended by Luper, Sosa, and Williamson on the grounds that it treats such cases as knowledge. But other theorists also criticize the safe indication account because it treats the cases as examples of ignorance when they are really examples of knowledge. I answer both groups of critics by arguing that (1) restorative rigging can enable us to know things, and (2) restoratively rigged cases can meet the relevant conditions of the safe indication account
Emergency Evacuation Software Model For Simulation Of Physical Changes
Public space such as schools, cinemas, shopping malls, etc. must have an emergency evacuation system in place. Such places are also required to follow certain regulations and protocols for emergency evacuation to assure the safety of their occupants inside from any unpredictable incident. For nearly two decades, companies/organizations are using simulation models/software for evacuation planning. Researchers are working on these software models to improve the efficiency using latest algorithms. This thesis focuses on creating a base software model of evacuation systems for 3D indoor environments to simulate physical changes such as retractable chairs, movable walls etc., to evaluate their effectiveness before committing to those changes. This research tries to address various flaws and shortcomings of previous software. We are using tools like Unity 3D and Autodesk Maya to simulate suggested changes. It provides planners as well as researchers a new perspective to work on new recommended physical changes to design public venues
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