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I'm currently enduring this as well. I've cycled everything, configured everything, and performed unholy rituals and dances for my router (just to be safe). I still continue to get kicked off the psn. Everything else is working fine.
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I'm having this same issue and this is day 3 for me. It started out while I was online and playing Killzone3. I got the error has occurred and you have been logged out. Day 2 (yesterday) I could log in but would get the error message after playing for 10-20 minutes. Today I can't log in at all. I have reconfigured and rebooted my router three different times and nothing works. I'm glad that others are also having this issue and this suggests it's not my settings or ISP but perhaps something with Sony.
Would someone please wake up the guy in the server room and ask him to verify the servers are healthy.
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I have been having the same problem. I have the 160GB PS3 slim. I get disconnected from psn network, and cant log into the EA sports servers. When I test the network connection it says it fails the speed test. However I can run Amazon Prime streaming video on the PS3 with no errors, so my internet connection speed seems to be fine. I tried reseting my DSL modem, router, and reseting the PS3 to default settings and nothing has remedied it.

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Buakaw: Boxer, Legend, Legacy Shows the Human Side of a Legend
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Earlier today I got a chance, thanks to the film's directors, Timo Ruge and Gerrit Staron, to check out the new Buakaw documentary titled "Buakaw: Boxer, Legend, Legacy." The documentary runs about 47 minutes and is available to stream on-demand via Vimeo right now for $6.99 and I absolutely urge you to check it out. We know that the price tag might set you off a bit, but doing so supports the filmmakers, who have funded most of the film themselves and were simply looking to tell the story of one of the most famous Thai Fighters in the world in Sombat "Buakaw" Banchamek.
The documentary is all based upon interview and behind-the-scenes footage of Buakaw and his camp as they train and show you what a day in the life of Buakaw Banchamek is really like. It starts off by following Banchamek in early 2012 in his hometown in his then newly-constructed gym after his very public departure from Por. Pramuk gym with some help from Thai Fight. You get a good inside look at the simplicity of Buakaw's home life and how, to his family and everyone in his home village, he is just Sombat to them, a fun-loving, caring kid that they've known for their whole lives.
Showing Buakaw in this setting really provides a stark contrast from the bright lights that we are accustomed to seeing him under, as we get some details on his back story and what led him into a life as a Thai Boxer. It is interesting to see interviews with his manager and trainer, who have known him for a long time, and to hear how his life changed thanks to Boxing. His good friend and trainer tells about how word got around about Buakaw fighting for K-1 and how it impacted his life to win the K-1 World MAX 2004 tournament for good. It is interesting to hear Buakaw talk about the tournament and then hear his friend talk about how they celebrated; with Buakaw coming home and taking him out bowling.
For many, Buakaw is a larger-than-life icon in the world of Muay Thai and Kickboxing, but this documentary does a great job of humanizing him while showing his personal and professional growth from just another kid who couldn't afford to continue with school to one of the most famous Thais in the world. You also get to hear Buakaw's take on why he has decided to challenge foreigners and what he wants out of the rest of his career as he is now transitioning into training his own pupils, although Buakaw himself admits that he has a lot to learn.
For the relatively short length the documentary is dense with content, although there are some gaps due to some of Buakaw's ongoing legal issues, but they artfully work around them and instead of focusing on some of the negative parts of Buakaw's life and career focus on the positives, which is refreshing. The documentary itself is tastefully done and tells the story of one of the best Kickboxers and Thai Fighters to compete and make a name for himself. Buakaw: Boxer, Legend, Legacy is skillfully directed, contains beautiful imagery and is mixed in surround sound with a pretty fun soundtrack. It is absolutely worth the $7 to learn more about Sombat "Buakaw" Banchamek and to see him in a way that you never have before.
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TAHOE CITY, Calif. — The Fourth of July is fast approaching, and donations for two of the North Shore's Lake Tahoe fireworks shows are still needed.
The North Tahoe Business Association will host its annual fireworks show at 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 3, in Kings Beach, while the Tahoe City Downtown Association will host its show at 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 4, in Tahoe City.
"It's always a nail-biter," said Steve Hoch, TCDA executive director. "We're always working right up to the last minute to get the necessary funding for the fireworks show."
As of Wednesday afternoon, $6,000 to $7,000 had been raised for the Tahoe City fireworks show, out of a $20,000 goal, said Hoch, adding that all funding is generated from donations and sponsorships. The money raised this year will go to fund next year's fireworks display.
As for Kings Beach, about half of a $26,000 goal for the show and a new beach party had been raised as of Wednesday by selling sponsorships, said Joy Doyle, NTBA executive director. The beach party, which will be from 2 to 10 p.m. on July 3 outside the North Tahoe Event Center, is a fundraiser for this year's fireworks show and will feature live music, food and contests.
"It would have a negative financial impact on the organization (NTBA), which could translate to the organization's ability to put on fireworks in the future," said Doyle, regarding if the funding goal is not met.
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Hello again, everybody. My apologies, in advance, I realize that these announcements are overwhelming the regularly scheduled content here (my MTESS post today is looking extremely doubtful), and I'm sure they're more than tedious for people, but I feel obliged to treat each of these awards as something very special, and to show my gratitude for receiving them. So please bear with me here for a couple more posts. This year's Lammy season has become unexpectedly fruitful here for FMR.
Last night, I was awarded the 2013 "Most Knowledgeable" Lammy by the LAMB. It's a tremendous honor, and I'm sincerely flattered, especially considering how many extremely knowledgeable film fans the LAMB has in its community!
I want to thank everyone who voted, and give a big congratulations to the other nominees, too. So congratulations to Runner-Up Alex Withrow of And So It Begins, Bonjour Tristesse, Sam Fragoso of Movie Mezzanine, and Dan Heaton of Public Transportation Snob. They're all very knowledgeable writers, so be sure to check them out!!
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World in Lisbon - B. Prata
Size70 m²
Floor No.(with elevator)
- Family/child friendly
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Pets allowed
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Feel like a local in this well-equipped apartment located in a modern Lisbon neighbourhood. It features a stylish double bedroom, and a living room with a double sofa bed, a glass coffee table and a dining area.
There is a fully fitted kitchen offering plenty of modern appliances and a breakfast table. A bathtub with shower is located in the tiled bathroom.
Braço de Prata Train Station is just 50 metres away for excellent transport links to all the popular tourist areas of the city. The historic centre of Lisbon is just a 10-minute journey away by train.
There are a selection of coffee shops, restaurants, supermarkets and located shops in the surrounding neighbourhood.
House rulesPlease treat the apartment as you would your own home.
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Reviews of this property
Paulo was a very nice and very family person, we have been almost like home
Paulo ha sido una persona muy agradable y muy familiar, hemos estado casi como en casa
We had a really good stay in the apartment. It was clean, good equipped and in general everything like in the description. Contact with the host was great, always quick and nice respond. We didn't have to wait for the keys, when we came for the first time, even a minute :)! Thanks for that!
Only sometimes in the evening/night we had to take a taxi to get to our apartment as public transport doesn't work really often in evenings and the apartment is situated outside the city center. I would recomend this apartment.
the apartment is great, well located, although outside the center but with very good combination in train or car.
We felt like home.
el apartamento está genial, bien situado, aunque a las afueras del centro pero con muy buena combinación en tren o en coche.
Nos hemos sentido como en casa.
Excellent apartment. All very organized. Spacious. Near the airport. Residential neighborhood without noises at night. No contraindications.
Excelente apartamento. Tudo muito organizado. Espaçoso. Perto do aeroporto. Bairro residencial sem barulhos à noite. Sem contraindicações.
Nice apartment, pleasant host. We've enjoyed ourselves very much.
Schönes Appartment, angenehmer Gastgeber. Wir habe den Aufenthalt sehr genossen.
We were very satisfied with the reception very comprehensive information on accommodation, travel, train, subway, and subway maps distributions Train schedules.
The apartment worked out well for us, nice, well equipped, in a quiet green area.
Nous avons été très satisfait de l'accueil très complet, renseignements sur l'hébergement, les déplacements train, métro, distributions de cartes et horaires train métro.
L'appartement nous a bien convenu, agréable, bien équipé, dans un quartier calme et verdoyant.
It was a very good experience. Paulo was very friendly. We provided useful information on the city outskirts, transport schedules, maps ... Very polite, attentive, very good summary anfitrión.Y the apartment had everything we needed. Very clean and as the ad says. Thank you very much for making our holiday so enjoyable.
Ha sido una muy buena experiencia. Paulo fue muy amable. Nos facilitó información muy útil sobre la ciudad, alrededores, transportes, horarios, mapas... Muy educado, atento, en resumen muy buen anfitrión.Y el apartamento tenía todo lo necesario. Muy limpio y es tal como dice el anuncio. Muchas gracias por haber hecho tan agradables nuestras vacaciones.
Paulo was so nice! He helped us all the time! Even in the middle of the night! Thank you so much!!!!
New apartment. Well it located and well equipped. Serious, responsible and trustworthy host. I definitely recommend it. Ah! and Lisbon ... beautiful, as always.
Apartamento nuevo. Bien situado y bien equipado. El anfitrión serio, responsable y de confianza. Definitivamente lo recomiendo. Ah! y Lisboa... preciosa, como siempre.
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A new exhibit by Conway sculptor Bryan Winfred Massey, Sr. is on display in the Bank of the Ozarks Gallery in Ottenheimer Library on the Main campus.
Massey, who is an art professor at the University of Central Arkansas, gave a gallery talk on Feb. 22 about his work. Although he is primarily a stone carver, he also casts in iron, bronze and aluminum. He was recently commissioned to design and sculpt a memorial honoring Silas H. Hunt, the first African American allowed into the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville's Law School in 1948.
Some of Massey's other well-known works include a 10-foot bronze memorial honoring former Arkansas Governor Sidney S. McMath. The memorial is on the grounds of the McMath Library in west Little Rock.
Massey also was commissioned by former President Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation in Little Rock to sculpt a portrait of Clinton playing his saxophone. Reproductions of the original "Clinton Blues" are sold at the Clinton Museum Store in Little Rock. In 2009, his work "The Jazz Player" was purchased and given to President Bill Clinton at the fifth anniversary celebration of the Clinton Presidential Library and is on permanent display at the Little Rock Vogel-Schwarz Sculpture Garden.


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Countdown to Batman vs Superman. It doesn't have much competition this weekend either. Or the week after that. So it's free to dominate the box office for at least two or three weeks. Which is great for Warner Bros. Because, as Sarah has noted several times already, BvS has to clear a billion. Full Story
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Ben Affleck partied with Leo and the Wolf Pack after the Oscars. They're both Warner Bros boys. Full Story
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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner were both at the Vanity Fair Oscar party on Sunday night. Multiple outlets are reporting that they spoke briefly and that everything seemed fine. Full Story
Olivia Munn: the Oscar discussion I don't want to have
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I don't want to talk about this. But where Olivia Munn is concerned, everyone is talking about this. SHE is talking about this. About her face. And why it looks different. Apparently people started commenting about her looking different and then she went on Instagram and listed four reasons why she's looking different. Full Story
Batman's All-Star Valentine's Day
It was reported just as we were breaking for the weekend on Friday that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner would be spending Valentine's Day together on holiday with their children. According to US Weekly they flew to Montana on a private plane and E! Full Story
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Here's how Duana described Britney Spears to me on text last night: "She's of our generation. B is an elder here tonight." Why are we so old?! Did you know any of the people on that pre-show? Like that guy who kept performing other people's songs the whole time? Trotsky…or something? Of course, I know he wasn't named after a Marxist politician and the inspiration behind Snowball but that's what I kept hearing. Full Story
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It hasn't been a great week for Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen. First, the NFL upheld his #Deflategate suspension (I don't follow sports — at all — and even I'm interested in this because of the cheating Golden Boy aspect) and now, Gisele has allegedly been "caught" sneaking into a plastic surgeon's office. Full Story
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Dinner talk to the Rolls-Royce Owners' Club
It is very appropriate that as the Rolls-Royce Owners' Club, you have chosen to have your dinner under this great Mk1 Lancaster, "G for George", which is powered by four Rolls-Royce Merlin1 aero engines.
George is part of a special object theatre display Striking by night, which represents a tribute to all our RAAF aircrew in Bomber Command. The dangers those crews faced at night over occupied Europe were extraordinary: adverse weather, anti-aircraft fire, the threat of night fighters, collisions with others in the bomber stream, bombs falling from other aircraft above – and then navigating a way back, sometimes with a damaged aircraft, to an airfield hopefully not fogged in. It's no wonder the losses in aircrew were so high. But one thing I'm told was constant: the reliability of the Merlin engine.
The Rolls-Royce Merlin was used not only on the Avro Lancaster bomber. Indeed, the first aircraft types to use the then newly-developed Merlin were the Hawker Hurricane, the Vickers Supermarine Spitfire, and the Fairey Battle. Two of these aircraft were extraordinarily successful; without a doubt, the Battle of Britain could not have been won without the Hurricane and Spitfire. In due course, the Merlin was to be used in a variety of types, including the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley, de Havilland Mosquito and Hornet, Avro Lancaster, Avro York, Avro Lincoln, Bolton Paul Defiant, and the Fairey Fulmar.
Some Handley Page Halifax bombers had Merlins, although the normal fit for that aircraft was a magnificent, 14-cylinder radial engine with sleeve valves, the Hercules. The ultimate development of that, the Bristol Centaurus, can be seen in our Aircraft Hall on the Sea Fury, which I believe represents the apogee of single-engine fighter development. Some of the naval variant of the Spitfire, the Seafire, also had Merlins, some Beaufighters did, and the Vickers Wellington bomber had them as well.
Now, that's just a list of British aircraft, and I won't claim it to be fully comprehensive, as all sorts of expedient things happen in wartime. Elsewhere, the US Curtiss P-40F Warhawk had a Merlin, as did the North American P-51 Mustang. This was a Packard Merlin, manufactured in the US under licence. Merlin applications didn't end when the war was over. In post-war Spain, local versions of the German Heinkel 111 and Bf-109 were fitted with Merlins. The total production of Merlins is believed to be over 150,000 of all marks, and in the UK they came off five separate production lines.
A complete list of all Merlin variants doesn't seem to be available (or at least my research did not uncover one), but I can account for 50 variants from the Mark 1 up to a Merlin 85 (as a matter of interest, the mark numbers do not seem to be sequential). Then there was a Merlin 102 for the Lincoln bomber, which was produced in Australia, and I have noted also 130/131, 224/225, as well as 500, 600 and 700 series. I'm sure there's a PhD in researching all the mark numbers and specifying the engineering differences!
On thinking about it, and reading some contemporary reports, perhaps the reason there were so many marks lay in Rolls-Royce's policy of continually introducing into the production line the developments necessary for improved performance and reliability. This was done in what one engineer described as "digestible quantities"2, so that completely new marks of engine evolved all the time. This practice could lead to logistic problems, and possibly that is why cannibalisation was such a common practice on some airfields.
However, there's no doubt all the developments yielded significant performance improvements. The brake horsepower (hp) of the Merlin went from 1,000 in 1939 to 2,100 in 1944, and if you look at performance tables, a Spitfire went from a maximum speed of 340 miles per hour in 1939 to 430 mph in 1944. That is a significant increase in anyone's language. In 1939 a Spitfire could be at 20,000 feet in 10 minutes; in 1944 it would be at almost 40,000 feet in the same time.3
So how was this done during the life of the Merlin engine? As it happened, Rolls-Royce had long, well-established prior experience with in-line V12 engines, going back to an aero engine called the Kestrel. The Kestrel was in due course developed into the Peregrine (700 hp), and an engine called the Vulture (1,700 hp). Both these developments, although satisfactory, did not power any overwhelmingly successful aircraft. In fact, the Vulture was used on the Manchester bomber, a failed forerunner of the Lancaster.
Rolls-Royce saw the need for a 1,000 hp engine, and went ahead with its development as a private venture. This was a far-sighted decision which helped the British war effort immeasurably. The company used 35 prototypes in the development of this engine. Some were used in, of all things, a German Heinkel 70 aircraft, which had the advantage of an enclosed cabin in which engineers could sit and monitor the performance of the prototype engines.4 Cooling problems encountered during trials were overcome eventually with the use of US-sourced ethylene glycol.5 There were also reliability problems in the Mark 1 version that required a major improvement program to overcome. By then the Air Ministry had become interested in the Merlin, initially because it needed a more powerful engine for its planned new fighter aircraft.
Over its life, the Merlin's big improvements in performance came about for essentially two reasons. Supercharging was introduced, which successfully went from a single stage – single speed version, to a single stage – two speed version, and finally to two stages and two speeds. The other factor that gave the big improvement was the use of improved fuels. Of course, mechanical improvements were necessary to accommodate the additional stresses imposed by supercharging and enhanced fuels.6 The interesting thing is that during all of these improvements, there was no change in the engine's compression ratio, its displacement (1,065 cubic inches, or 27 litres) or its rpm (a nominal 3,000).
Well, there you have it. It's a fascinating story of a celebrated British development. As a mechanical engineer more interested in gas turbines when younger, I have to say that I never appreciated fully the contribution of the Merlin until I came to the Memorial and learnt more about it. The development of the Merlin is a great success story, which I'm sure you are pleased to know about as Rolls-Royce owners and enthusiasts.
- The Merlin is named after a small falcon, rather than King Arthur's magician Merlin.
- A.C. Lovesey, De Havillard Aircraft Company, "Development of the Rolls-Royce Merlin from 1939 to 1945", presentation, November 1945
- Lovesey
- After my talk, a gentleman introduced himself and said his father (a Rolls-Royce employee in the Second World War) had long ago told him about the Germans gaining access to the Merlin during these trials. Apparently special markings had been tampered with. However, it was a Mark 1, which had cooling and reliability problems.
- John Dell and Martin Waligorski, "The Development of Rolls-Royce Merlin Engine", Wikipedia, posted 10 April 2010.
- Lovesey
The assistance of AWM Senior Curator John White is gratefully acknowledged.


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Located in Disney's Maingate East, Magical Memories Villas is within 2 miles (3 km) of sights such as Capone's Dinner Show and Lake Buena Vista Factory Stores. This 130-room, 3-star vacation home welcomes guests with conveniences like an outdoor pool, free in-room WiFi, and free self parking. Fun Spot America and Old Town are also near this Kissimmee vacation home.
The 130 individually decorated homes feature kitchens and 2 bathrooms, and there's space to spread out with living rooms and dining areas. Guests can enjoy free WiFi and cable TV. Other standard amenities include washers/dryers, sofa beds, and coffee makers.
At Magical Memories Villas, guests enjoy an outdoor pool, a fitness center, and a spa tub. If you drive, put free parking to good use. The front desk has multilingual staff that can help with tours or tickets, and offer advice about sights and eateries nearby. Additional amenities include a sauna, free WiFi in public areas, and a picnic area.
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MANISA, Turkey (Jan. 21, 2014) – The U.S. Under-17 Men's National Team continued its sterling start at the 2014 Aegean Cup by defeating Norway 5-2 on Tuesday to book its place in the tournament's championship match.
The USA (2-0-0; 6pts) sits atop Group B and will play Scotland on Thursday before advancing to the tournament championship on Saturday. With France and Scotland drawing 1-1, neither team can catch the USA on points. Should the USA lose to Scotland and Norway beat France on Thursday, bringing the Americans and Scandinavians even on points, the USA will still go through as the top team in Group B by virtue of beating Norway head-to-head.
The USA's victory against Norway was secured with three unanswered goals early in the second half, after the two teams went in to half time tied at 2-2. U.S. captain Alexis Velela scored the winning goal seven minutes after the restart, and Christian Pulisic added another three minutes later to give the USA some breathing room. Pulisic's strike was his third goal in as many games dating back to the USA's final match against Brazil at the Nike International Friendlies in December.
Nicholas Taitague, a call up from the U-15 Boys' National Team, capped the proceedings after coming on as a second-half sub with his first international goal for the U.S. U-17 MNT in the 58th minute.
In the first half, forward Elijah Rice started off a late barrage of goals when he opened his U-17 account in the 21st minute. However, a pair of strikes from Norway's John Hou Saeter and Sander Berge saw the match tilt in favor of the Scandinavians with five minutes remaining until the break.
The USA evened matters in the final minute of the half through newcomer McKinzie Gaines, who was just added to U.S. Soccer's Residency Program this semester. After playing 11 minutes in the team's 2-1 win against France on Monday, Gaines seized his opportunity to haul the U.S. level by scoring his first international goal in his first start with the U.S. U-17 National Team.
Brilliant work McKinze!


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Modern hardware trends and economics 1 combined with cloud/virtualization technology 2 are radically reshaping today's data management landscape, ushering in a new era where many machine, many core, memory-based computing topologies can be dynamically assembled from legacy IT resources and pay-as-you-go clouds.
Arguably one of the hardest problems—and consequently, most exciting opportunities—faced by today's solution designers is figuring out how to leverage this on-demand hardware to build an optimal data management platform that can:
A data management platform that dynamically runs across many machines requires—as a foundation—a fast, scalable, fault-tolerant distributed system. It is well-known, however, that distributed systems have unavoidable tradeoffs 3 and notoriously complex implementation challenges 4. Introduced at PODC 2000 by Eric Brewer 5 and formally proven by Seth Gilbert and Nancy Lynch in 2002 6, the CAP Theorem, in particular, stipulates that it is impossible for a distributed system to be simultaneously: Consistent, Available, and Partition-Tolerant. At any given time, only two of these three desirable properties can be achieved. Hence when building distributed systems, design tradeoffs must be made.
Driven by awareness of CAP limitations, a popular design approach for scaling Web-oriented applications is to anticipate that large-scale systems will inevitably encounter network partitions and to therefore relax consistency in order to allow services to remain highly available even as partitions occur 7. Rather than go down and interrupt user service upon network outages, many Web user applications—e.g., customer shopping carts, email search, social network queries—can tolerate stale data and adequately merge conflicts, possibly guided by help from end users once partitions are fixed. Several so-called eventually consistent platforms designed for partition-tolerance and availability—largely inspired by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft—are available as products, cloud-based services, or even derivative, open source community projects.
In addition to these prior art approaches by Web 2.0 vendors, GemStone's perspective on distributed system design is further illuminated by 25 years of experience with customers in the world of high finance. Here, in stark contrast to Web user-oriented applications, financial applications are highly transactional, automated, and consistency of data is paramount. Eventually consistent solutions are frequently not an option. Business rules do not permit relaxed consistency, so invariants like account trading balances must be enforced by strong transactional consistency semantics. In application terms, the cost of an apology 8 makes rollback too expensive, so many high-speed financial applications must limit workflow exposure traditionally by relying on OLTP systems with ACID guarantees.
But just like Web 2.0 companies, these financial applications also need highly available data and seek some form of partition-tolerance. So in practice, financial institutions must "have their cake and eat it too".
But given CAP limitations, "How is it possible to prioritize consistency and availability yet also manage service interruptions caused by network outages?"
The intersection between strong consistency and availability (with some assurance for partition-tolerance) identifies a challenging design gap in CAP-aware solution space. Eventually consistent approaches are not applicable. Distributed databases using two phase commit provide transactional guarantees but only so long as all nodes see each other. Quorum based approaches provide consistency but block service availability during network partitions.
Collaboratively designed with customers over the last five years, GemStone has developed practical ways to mine this gap, delivering an off-the-shelf, fast, scalable, and reliable data management solution we call the enterprise data fabric (EDF).
Any choice of distributed system design—shared memory, shared-disk, or shared-nothing architecture—has inescapable CAP tradeoffs with downstream implications on data correctness and concurrency. High-level design choices also impact throughput and latency as well as programmability models, potentially imposing constraints on schema flexibility and transactional semantics.
Guided by distributed systems theory 9, industry trends in parallel/distributed databases 10, and customer experience, the EDF solution adopts a shared-nothing scalability architecture where data is partitioned onto nodes connected into a seamless, expandable, resilient fabric capable of spanning process, machine, and geographical boundaries. By simply connecting more machine nodes, the EDF scales data storage horizontally. Within a data partition (not to be confused with network partitions), data entries are key/value pairs with thread-based, read-your-writes 7 consistency.
The isolation of data into partitions creates a service-oriented design pattern where related partitions can be grouped into abstractions called service entities 11. A service entity is deployed on a single machine at a time where it owns and manages a discrete collection of data—a holistic chunk of the overall business schema—hence, multiple data entries colocated within a service entity can be queried and updated transactionally, independent of data within another service entity.
From a CAP perspective, service entities enable the EDF to exploit a well-known approach to fault tolerance based on partial-failure modes, fault isolation, and graceful degradation of service 12. Service entities allow application designers to demarcate units of survivability in the face of network faults. So rather than striving for complete partition-tolerance (an impossible result) when consistency and availability must be prioritized, the EDF implements a relaxed, weakened form of partition-tolerance that isolates the effects of network failures enabling the maximum number of services to remain fully consistent and available when network splits occur.
By configuring membership roles (reflecting service entity responsibilities) for each member of the distributed system, customers can orthogonally (in a lightweight, non-invasive, declarative manner) encode business semantics that give the EDF the ability to decide under what circumstances a member node can safely continue operating after a disruption caused by network failure. Membership roles perform application decomposition by encapsulating the relationship of one system member to another, expressing causal data dependencies, message stability rules (defining what attendant members must be reachable), loss actions (what to do if required roles are absent), and resumption actions (what to do when required roles rejoin). For example, membership roles can identify independent subnetworks in a complex workflow application. So long as interdependent producer and consumer activities are present after a split, reads and writes to their data partitions can safely continue. Rather than arbitrarily disabling an entire losing side during network splits, the EDF consults fine-grained knowledge of service-based role dependencies and keeps as many services consistently available as possible.
CAP requirements and data mutability requirements can evolve as data flows across space and time through business processes.
So all data is not equal 13 – as data is processed by separate activities in a business workflow, consistency, availability, and partition-tolerance requirements change. For example, in an e-commerce site, acquisition of shopping cart items is prioritized as a high-write availability scenario, i.e., an e-retailer wants shopping cart data to be highly available even at the cost of weakened consistency, lest service interruption stalls impulse purchases, or worse yet, ultimately forces customers to visit competitor store fronts. Once items are placed in the shopping cart and the order is clicked, automated order fulfillment workflows re-prioritize for data consistency (at the cost of weakened availability) since no live customer is waiting for the next Web screen to appear; if an activity blocks, another segment of the automated workflow can be alternatively launched, or the activity can be retried. In addition to changing CAP requirements, data mutability requirements also change—e.g., at the front end of a workflow, data may be write-intensive; whereas afterward, during bulk processing, the same captured data may be accessed in read-only or read-mostly fashion.
The EDF solution exploits this changing nature of data by allowing system architects to flexibly configure consistency, availability, and partition-tolerance tradeoffs depending on where and when data is processed in application workflows:
Thus, business can achieve all three CAP properties—but at different application locations and times.
Each logical unit of EDF data sharing, called a region , may be individually configured for synchronous or asynchronous state machine replication, persistence, and stipulations for N (number of replicas), W (number of writers for message stability), R (number of replicas for servicing a read request).
In addition to matching CAP properties with workflow needs, this system configurability lets designers selectively amortize the cost of fault-tolerance throughout an end-to-end system architecture resulting in optimal throughput and latency.
For example, Wall Street trading firms with extreme low-latency requirements for data capture can configure order matching systems to run completely in-memory (with synchronous, yet very fast, redundancy to another in-memory node) while providing disaster recovery with persistent (on-disk), asynchronous data replication and eventual consistency to a metropolitan area network across the river in New Jersey. To maximize performance for competitiveness, risks of failure are spread-out and fine-tuned across the business workflow according to failure probability: the common failure of single machine nodes is offset by intra-data center, strongly consistent HA memory backups; while the more remote possibility of a complete data center outage event is offset by a weakly consistent, multi-homed, disk-resident disaster recovery backup.
A design goal of the EDF is to optimize performance by exploiting parallelism and concurrency wherever and whenever possible. For example, the EDF exploits many-core thread-level parallelism by managing entries in highly concurrent data structures and utilizing service pools for computation and network I/O. The EDF employs partitioned and pipelined parallelism to perform distributed queries, aggregation, and internal distribution operations on behalf of user applications. With data partitioned among multiple nodes, a query can be replicated to many independent processors each responsible for returning a small part of the overall query. Similarly, business data schemas and workloads frequently consist of multi-step operations on uniform (e.g., sequential time series) data streams. These operations can be composed into parallel data flow graphs where the output of one operator is streamed into the input of another; hence multiple operators can work continuously in task pipelines.
External applications can use the FunctionService API to create Map/Reduce programs that run in parallel over data in the EDF. Rather than data flowing from many nodes into a single client application, control (Runnable functions) logic flows from the application to many machines in the EDF. This dramatically reduces process execution time as well as network bandwidth.
To further assist parallel function execution, data partitions can be tuned dynamically by applications using the PartitionResolver API. By default, the EDF uses a hashing policy where a data entry key is hashed to compute a random bucket mapped to a member node. The physical location of the key-value pair is virtualized from the application. Custom partitioning, on the other hand, enables applications to colocate related data entries together to form service entities. For example, a financial risk analytics application can colocate all trades, risk sensitivities, and reference data associated with a single instrument in the same region. Using the FunctionService, control flow can then be directly routed to specific nodes holding particular data sets; hence queries can be localized and then aggregated in parallel increasing the speed of execution when compared to a distributed query.
Server machines can also be organized into server groups—aligned on service entity functionality—to provide concurrent access to shared data on behalf of client application nodes.
EDF client applications can then create active caches to eliminate latency. If application requests do not find data in the client cache, the data is automatically fetched from the EDF by the server. As modifications to shared regions occur, these updates are automatically pushed to clients where applications receive realtime event notifications. Likewise, modifications initiated by a client application are sent to the server and then pushed to other applications listening for region updates.
Caching eliminates the need for polling since updates are pushed to client applications as realtime events.
In addition to subscribing to all events on a data region, clients can subscribe to events using key-based regular expressions or continuous queries based on query language predicates. Clients can create semantic views or narrow slices of the entire EDF that act as durable, stateful pub/sub messaging topics specific to application use-cases. Collectively, these views drive an enterprise-wide, realtime event-driven architecture.
To accommodate wider-scale topologies beyond client/server, the EDF spans geographical boundaries using WAN gateways that allow businesses to orchestrate multi-site workflows. By connecting multiple distributed systems together, system architects create 24×7 global workflows wherein each distinct geography/city acts as a service entity that owns and distributes its regional chunk of business data. Sharing of data across cities—e.g., to create a global book for coordinating trades between exchanges in New York, London, and Tokyo—can be done via asynchronous replication via persistent WAN queues . Here, consistency of data is weakened and eventual, but with the positive tradeoff of high application availability (the entire global service won't be disrupted if one city goes dark) and low-latency business processing at individual locations.
With plunging cost of fast memory chips (1TB/$15,000), 64-bit computing, and multi-core servers, the EDF can give system designers an opportunity to rethink the traditional memory hierarchy for data management applications. The EDF obviates the need for high-latency (tens of milliseconds) disk-based systems by pooling memory from many machines into an ocean of RAM, creating a fast (microsecond latency), redundant virtualized memory layer capable of caching and distributing all operational data within an enterprise.
The EDF core is built in Java where garbage collection of 64-bit heaps can cause stop-the-world performance interruptions. Object graphs are managed in serialized form to decrease strain on the garbage collector. To reduce pauses further, a resource manager actively monitors Java virtual machine heap growth and proactively evicts cached data on an LRU basis to avoid GC interruptions.
As flash memory replaces disk—an inevitability predicted by the new five minute rule 14—EDF overflow and disk persistence can be augmented with flash memory for even faster overflow and lower-latency durability.
From a distributed systems viewpoint, a key technical challenge for elastic growth is to figure out how to initialize new nodes into a running distributed system with consistent data.
The EDF implements a patent-pending method for bootstrapping joining nodes based on the current data that ensures "in-flight" changes appear consistently in the new member nodes. When a node joins the EDF, it is initialized with a distributed snapshot 15 taken in a non-blocking manner from current state gleaned from the active nodes. While this initial snapshot is being delivered and applied at the new node, concurrent updates are captured and then merged once the new node is initialized.
Even with theorem proven algorithms 16 and extensive hardware and development resources, implementing distributed systems is challenging. Service outages from cloud-computing giants like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft 17 attest to the enormous difficulty of getting distributed systems right.
Subtle race conditions occur within innumerable process interleavings spread across many threads in many processes in many machines. Recreating problematic scenarios, messaging patterns, and timing sequences is difficult. Testing an asynchronous distributed system with a fail stop model is not even enough since Byzantine faults occur in the real world 18 (e.g., TCP checksums fail silently 19).
Our EDF solution is continuously tested for both correctness and performance using state-of-the-art quality assurance and performance tools including static and dynamic model-checking, profiling, failure-injection, and code analysis. We use a highly configurable multi-threaded, multi-vm, multi-node distributed testing framework that provisions tests across a highly scalable hardware testbed. We continuously refine EDF performance models based on mathematical, analytical, and simulation techniques.
Despite rigorous design, testing, and simulation, bugs will always exist. Therefore, the EDF design includes mechanisms for comprehensive management, debugging, and support, e.g., meticulous system logging, continuous statistics monitoring, system health checks, management consoles, scriptable admin tools, management APIs with configurable threshold conditions, and performance visualization tools.
Our EDF solution is built and supported by a team with a 25+ year history of world-class 24×7×365 support that includes just-in-time, on-site operational consultations along with company-wide escalation pathways to insure customer success and business continuity.
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To build a data management platform that can scale to exploit on-demand virtualization environments requires a distributed system at its core. The CAP Theorem, however, tells us that building large-scale distributed system requires unavoidable tradeoffs. There is a current, design gap in CAP-aware solution space unsolved by the current wave of eventually consistent platforms. To bridge this gap, our solution, GemFire Enterprise Data Fabric ®, prioritizes strong consistency and high availability by introducing a weakened form of partition-tolerance that lets businesses shrink application exposure to failure by demarcating functional boundaries according to service-entity role dependencies. When network faults inevitably occur, failures can be contained; service does not disappear wholesale, but degrades gracefully in a partial manner. Our solution also lets designers apply varying combinations of consistency, availability, and partition-tolerance at different times and locations in a business workflow. Hence, by tuning CAP semantics, a data solutions architect can amortize partition outage risks across the entire workflow, thus maximizing consistency with availability while minimizing disruption windows caused by network partitions. This configurability ultimately enables architects to build an optimal, high performance data management solution capable of scaling with business growth and deployment topologies.
From an functional viewpoint, the EDF is a memory-centric distributed system for business-wide caching, distribution, and analysis of operational data. It lets businesses run faster, reliably, and more intelligently by co-locating entire enterprise working data sets in memory, rather than constantly fetching this data from high-latency disk.
The EDF melds the functionality of scalable database management, messaging, and stream processing into holistic middleware for sharing, replicating, and querying operational data across process, machine, and LAN/WAN boundaries. To applications, the EDF appears as a single, tightly interwoven, overlay mesh that can expand and stretch elastically to match the size and shape of a growing enterprise. And unlike single-purpose, poll-driven, key-value stores, the EDF is a live platform—realtime Web infrastructure—that automatically pushes events to applications based on continuous mining of data streams—giving enterprise customers instant insight to perishable opportunities.
Designed, built, and tested for over the last five years on behalf of Wall Street customers, the EDF offers any mission-critical business with large volume, low latency, high consistency requirements, and legacy infrastructures the chance to be more scalable, speedier, and smarter.
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6 S. Gilbert, N. Lynch, "Brewer's Conjecture and the Feasibility of Consistent Available Partition-Tolerant Web Services", ACM SIGACT News, 2002.
7 W. Vogels, "Eventually Consistent", ACM Queue, 2008.
8 P. Helland, "Memories, Guesses, and Apologies", http://blogs.msdn.com/pathelland/archive/2007/05/15/memories-guesses-and-apologies.aspx, 2007.
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10 S. Madden, "Database parallelism choices greatly impact scalability", The Database Column: A multi-author blog on database technology and innovation, http://www.databasecolumn.com/2007/10/database-parallelism-choices.html,
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13 W. Vogels, "Availability & Consistency", http://www.infoq.com/presentations/availability-consistency, 2007.
14 G. Graefe, "The Five-Minute Rule 20 Years Later", ACM Queue, 2009.
15 M. Chandy, L. Lamport, "Distributed Snapshots: Determining Global States of Distributed Systems", http://research.microsoft.com/users/lamPort/pubs/chandy.pdf, ACM, 1985.
16 M. Jaskelioff, S. Merz, "Proving the Correctness of Disk Paxos in Isabelle/HOL", http://qsl.loria.fr/Externe/groupeplateforme/pubs/diskpaxos05afp.pdf, 2005
17 "From Sidekick to Gmail: A short history of cloud computing outages", http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/101209-sidekick-cloud-computing-outages-short-history.html
18 "Amazon S3 Availability Event: July 20, 2008", http://status.aws.amazon.com/s3-20080720.html
19 C. Partridge, J. Stone, "When the CRC and TCP checksum disagree", ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2000
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"Households' expectations of the future slipped back slightly but their perceptions of current conditions have continued to improve," Westpac economist Felix Delbruck said.
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