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Dryad: Distributed Data-Parallel Programs from Sequential Building Blocks
Michael Isard, Mihai Budiu, Yuan Yu, Andrew Birrell, Dennis Fetterly, “Dryad: Distributed Data-Parallel Programs from Sequential Building Blocks,” EuroSys, 2007. [PDF] Summary Dryad is Microsoft’s answer to the MapReduce paradigm, albeit at a (slightly) lower level with greater flexibility. Like MapReduce, Dryad allows developers to think about what to do with the data, and Dryad ...
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BotGraph: Large Scale Spamming Botnet Detection
Y. Zhao, Y. Xie, F. Yu, Q. Ke, Y. Yu, Y. Chen, E. Gillum, “BotGraph: Large Scale Spamming Botnet Detection,” NSDI’09, (April 2009). [PDF] Summary Analyzing large volume of logged data to identify abnormal patterns is one of the biggest and most frequently faced challenges in the network security community. This paper presents BotGraph, a ...
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