The megalithic site of Gunung Padang in the highlands of western Java was constructed some 2,000 years ago over the course of several generations. Similar stone monuments are found across the ...

Abstract: Erasure coding is a common redundancy scheme for tolerating failures in storage systems. Compared with replication, erasure coding saves a large amount of storage space, but incurs heavy ...

Abstract: In distributed storage systems that employ erasure coding, the issue of minimizing the total communication required to exactly rebuild a storage node after a failure arises. This repair ...

Words like “strong” and “robust” recur almost as often as the words “President Trump”, who is also described as “the President of Peace”. The “sole purpose of this strategy”, says the document, is ...