ACM SIGACT News Distributed Computing Column 35 Theory and Practice in Large Distributed Systems Idit Keidar Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Technion Haifa, 32000, Israel idish@ee.technion.ac.il In a follow-up on the theme of the previous Distributed Computing Column (SIGACT News 40(2), June 2009, pp. 67 95), which dealt with Cloud Computing , the current column deals with the tension between theoretical results and practical deployments of large-scale distributed systems. It consists of a single contribution by Lidong Zhou of Microsoft Research Asia, who has experience on both sides of this divide both in designing distributed algorithms and in building large-scale distributed systems. Many thanks to Lidong for his contribution! Call for contributions: I welcome suggestions for material to include in this column, including news, reviews, opinions, open problems, tutorials and surveys, either exposing the community to new and interesting topics, or providing new insight on well-studied topics by organizing them in new ways. ACM SIGACT News September 2009, vol. 40, no. 3
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