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Modern websites set multiple authentication cookies during the login process to allow users to remain authenticated over the duration of a web session. Web applications use cookie-based authentication to provide different ...

In this work, we study a fundamental tradeoff issue in designing dynamic hash table (DHT) in peer-to-peer networks: the size of the routing table v.s. the network diameter. It was observed in Ratnasamy et al. that existing ...

We define a set of overhead functions that capture the salient artifacts representing the interaction between parallel application characteristics and architectural features. An execution-driven simulation testbed is ...

This report presents the results from various barrier implementations on the IHPCL clusters - beetle and danish. It also presents the results from the NAS parallel benchmarks run on these clusters.