Communication complexity examines the minimum volume of information exchange required among distributed agents to compute a function of their combined inputs. Established nearly four decades ago, this ...

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CUDA's non-determinism is in scheduling and memory access, not computation itself. This is the same guarantees as you get with a CPU; the computation is deterministic, but the point at which you work ...

Since the very first days of computer science — a field known for its methodical approach to problem-solving — randomness has played an important role. The first program to run on the world’s first ...

Abounded response to events is the key to defining a hard real-time system. Real-time systems require determinism to ensure predictable behavior. Without determinism, systems can't be called real-time ...

Cryptocurrency as it currently stands is a bad fit for a general purpose payment network Distributed shared ledgers with cryptographic verification seem to be a potentially useful tool for a ...