The advent of open source software leading to Beowulf clusters has enabled small to medium sized Higher and Further education institutions to remove the “computational power” factor from research ventures. In an effort to catch up with leading Universities in the realm of research, many Universities are investing in small departmental HPC clusters to help with simulations, renders and calculati...

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The Canadian Federation of Library Association’s (CFLA-FCAB) Guidelines for the Education Technicians were last updated in 2011 and need a reboot. These guidelines have helped to establish national standard education library technicians Canada provided framework development skills, knowledge, abilities provide job-ready, highly skilled graduates. As much has changed information landscape recent...

System security is an ongoing struggle between system designers and the hacking community. Human creativity within this community pushes software into areas never anticipated by the designers, thus revealing weaknesses. Evolutionary algorithms offer designers a new way to examine the viability of their code. Because of the use of randomness as well as direction based on evaluation, these algori...

The presented project implements a persistent, fault-tolerant, high-performance key/value store. In order to achieve these goals, the system implements at-most-once semantics, relies upon Paxos for reaching consensus, shards the database across multiple replica groups, persistently stores values to disk, and implements protocols for automatically recovering and updating disk contents upon serve...

We suggest to model software package flaws (bugs) by assuming eventual Byzantine behavior of the package. In particular, the package has been tested by the manufacturer for limited length scenarios when started in a predefined initial state; the behavior beyond the tested scenario may be Byzantine. Restarts (reboots) are useful for recovering such systems. We suggest a general yet practical fra...