212 research outputs found
Implementing Performance Competitive Logical Recovery
New hardware platforms, e.g. cloud, multi-core, etc., have led to a
reconsideration of database system architecture. Our Deuteronomy project
separates transactional functionality from data management functionality,
enabling a flexible response to exploiting new platforms. This separation
requires, however, that recovery is described logically. In this paper, we
extend current recovery methods to work in this logical setting. While this is
straightforward in principle, performance is an issue. We show how ARIES style
recovery optimizations can work for logical recovery where page information is
not captured on the log. In side-by-side performance experiments using a common
log, we compare logical recovery with a state-of-the art ARIES style recovery
implementation and show that logical redo performance can be competitive.Comment: VLDB201
06121 Abstracts Collection -- Atomicity: A Unifying Concept in Computer Science
From 19.03.06 to 24.03.06, the Dagstuhl Seminar 06121 ``Atomicity: A Unifying Concept in Computer Science\u27\u27 was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl.
During the seminar, several participants presented their current
research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of
the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of
seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section
describes the seminar topics and goals in general.
Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available
Log-based middleware server recovery with transaction support
Abstract Providing enterprises with reliable and available Web-based application programs is a challenge. Applications are traditionally spread over multiple nodes, from user (client), to middle tier servers, to back end transaction systems, e.g. databases. It has proven very difficult to ensure that these applications persist across system crashes so that "exactly once" execution is produced, always important and sometimes essential, e.g., in the financial area. Our system provides a framework for exactly once execution of multitier Web applications, built on a commercially available Web infrastructure. Its capabilities include low logging overhead, recovery isolation (independence), and consistency between mid-tier and transactional back end. Good application performance is enabled via persistent shared state in the middle tier while providing for private session state as well. Our extensive experiments confirm both the desired properties and the good performance
Discontinuity in the molecular neuroendocrine response to increasing daylengths in Ile-de-France ewes: Is transient Dio2 induction a key feature of circannual timing?
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Dardente, H., Lomet, D., Chesneau, D., Pellicer-Rubio, M.-T. & Hazlerigg, D. (2019). Discontinuity in the molecular neuroendocrine response to increasing daylengths in IleâdeâFrance ewes: Is transient Dio2 induction a key feature of circannual timing? Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 31(8), e 12775, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/jne.12775. . This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.In mammals, melatonin is responsible for the synchronisation of seasonal cycles to the solar year. Melatonin is secreted by the pineal gland with a profile reflecting the duration of the night and acts via the pituitary pars tuberalis (PT), which in turn modulates hypothalamic thyroid hormone status via seasonal changes in the production of locallyâacting thyrotrophin. Recently, we demonstrated that, in the Soay sheep, photoperiodic induction of Tshb expression and consequent downstream hypothalamic changes occur over a narrow range of photoperiods between 12 and 14 hours in duration. In the present study, we aimed to extend our molecular characterisation of this pathway, based on transcriptomic analysis of photoperiodic changes in the pituitary and hypothalamus of ovariectomised, oestradiolâimplanted IleâdeâFrance ewes. We demonstrate that photoperiodic treatments applied before the winter solstice elicit two distinctive modes of accelerated reproductive switch off compared to ewes held on a simulated natural photoperiod, with shutâdown occurring markedly faster on photoperiods of 13 hours or more than on photoperiods of 12 hours and less. This pattern of response was reflected in gene expression profiles of photoperiodically sensitive markers, both in the PT (Tshb, Fam150b, Vmo1, Ezh2 and Suv39H2) and in tanycytes (Tmem252 and Dct). Unexpectedly, the expression of Dio2 in tanycytes did not show any noticeable increase in expression with lengthening photoperiods. Finally, the expression of Kiss1, the key activator of gonadotrophinâreleasing hormone release, was proportionately decreased by lengthening photoperiods, in a pattern that correlated strongly with gonadotrophin suppression. These data show that stepwise increases in photoperiod lead to graded molecular responses at the level of the PT, a progressive suppression of Kiss1 in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus and luteinising hormone/follicleâstimulating hormone release by the pituitary, despite apparently unchanged Dio2 expression in tanycytes. We hypothesise that this apparent discontinuity in the seasonal neuroendocrine response illustrates the transient nature of the thyroid hormoneâmediated response to long days in the control of circannual timing
The Atomic Manifesto: a Story in Four Quarks
This report summarizes the viewpoints and insights gathered in the Dagstuhl Seminar on Atomicity in System Design and Execution, which was attended by 32 people from four different scientific communities: database and transaction processing systems, fault tolerance and dependable systems, formal methods for system design and correctness reasoning, and hardware architecture and programming languages. Each community presents its position in interpreting the notion of atomicity and the existing state of the art, and each community identifies scientific challenges that should be addressed in future work. In addition, the report discusses common themes across communities and strategic research problems that require multiple communities to team up for a viable solution.
The general theme of how to specify, implement, compose, and reason about extended
and relaxed notions of atomicity is viewed as a key piece in coping with
the pressing issue of building and maintaining highly dependable systems that
comprise many components with complex interaction patterns
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