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Christopher Frost
Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles
Publications - 14
Citations - 3036
Christopher Frost is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: File system & Versioning file system. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 14 publications receiving 2711 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher Frost include University of Virginia & VMware.
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Spanner: Google's globally-distributed database
James C. Corbett,Jeffrey Dean,Michael James Boyer Epstein,Andrew Fikes,Christopher Frost,J. J. Furman,Sanjay Ghemawat,Andrey Gubarev,Christopher Heiser,Peter Hochschild,Wilson C. Hsieh,Sebastian Kanthak,Eugene Kogan,Hongyi Li,Alexander Lloyd,Sergey Melnik,David Mwaura,David Nagle,Sean Quinlan,Rajesh Rao,Lindsay Rolig,Yasushi Saito,Michal Piotr Szymaniak,Chris Jorgen Taylor,Ruth Wang,Dale Woodford +25 more
TL;DR: This article describes how Spanner is structured, its feature set, the rationale underlying various design decisions, and a novel time API that exposes clock uncertainty, critical to supporting external consistency and a variety of powerful features.
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Better I/O through byte-addressable, persistent memory
Jeremy P. Condit,Edmund B. Nightingale,Christopher Frost,Engin Ipek,Benjamin C. Lee,Doug Burger,Derrick Coetzee +6 more
TL;DR: A file system and a hardware architecture that are designed around the properties of persistent, byteaddressable memory, which provides strong reliability guarantees and offers better performance than traditional file systems, even when both are run on top of byte-addressable, persistent memory.
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Spanner: Google’s Globally Distributed Database
James C. Corbett,Jeffrey Dean,Michael James Boyer Epstein,Andrew Fikes,Christopher Frost,J. J. Furman,Sanjay Ghemawat,Andrey Gubarev,Christopher Heiser,Peter Hochschild,Wilson C. Hsieh,Sebastian Kanthak,Eugene Kogan,Hongyi Li,Alexander Lloyd,Sergey Melnik,David Mwaura,David Nagle,Sean Quinlan,Rajesh Rao,Lindsay Rolig,Yasushi Saito,Michal Piotr Szymaniak,Chris Jorgen Taylor,Ruth Wang,Dale Woodford +25 more
TL;DR: Spanner as mentioned in this paper is Google's scalable, multiversion, globally distributed, and synchronously replicated database, which is the first system to distribute data at global scale and support externally-consistent distributed transactions.
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Generalized file system dependencies
Christopher Frost,Mike Mammarella,Eddie Kohler,Andrew de los Reyes,Shant Hovsepian,Andrew Matsuoka,Lei Zhang +6 more
TL;DR: This work presents a general abstraction, the patch, that makes write-before relationships explicit and file system agnostic, and includes several important optimizations that reduce patch overheads by orders of magnitude.
Patent
Hardware and operating system support for persistent memory on a memory bus
Jeremy P. Condit,Edmund B. Nightingale,Benjamin C. Lee,Engin Ipek,Christopher Frost,Douglas C. Burger +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a file system that is supported by a nonvolatile memory that is directly connected to a memory bus, and placed side by side with a dynamic random access memory (DRAM), is described.