Author Archives: Michael Bender

It Actually is Easy Being Green

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Fractal Tree™ indexes are green. They have the potential to be greener still. Here’s why:
Remarkably, data centers consume 1-3 percent of all the US electricity. A majority of this power is used to drive servers and storage systems.…

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Don’t Thrash: How to Cache your Hash on Flash

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Last week I gave a talk entitled “Don’t Thrash: How to Cache your Hash.” The talk took place at the Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures (ADS) in a medieval castle turned conference center in Bertinoro, Italy.…

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My-Shhhh!-QL

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I gave a talk entitled “How to Index Massive Data Sets Quickly” at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center. The event was hosted at the Long Island Forum for Technology (LIFT) and was jointly supported by NYSTAR

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Fractal Trees May Be Useful for Making...

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On April 9-10 the National Science Foundation hosted the Workshop on the Science of Power Management (SciPM 2009), where I gave an invited talk. Here I give a brief summary of my talk along with a pointer to…

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