August 20, 2009

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Computer scientists have developed an inexpensive solution for diagnosing networking delays in data center networks as short as tens of millionths of seconds--delays that can lead to multimillion dollar losses for investment banks running automatic stock trading systems. University of California, San Diego, and Purdue University computer scientists presented this work on Aug. 20, 2009, at SIGCOMM, the premier networking conference.Full Story

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