[erlang-questions] Problems Writing a Scalable Shared Data Structure

[Scott Lystig Fritchie]

Hi, Fuad.  Sorry this is a month and a half late.  Recently I came
across a tech report from HP Labs that sounded similar, at least in
intent, to the problem you were working on back in July.

Fuad Tabba <fuad@REDACTED> wrote:

ft> Another thing I've tried is I created a base for the tree; what I
ft> mean is that there's a known root, a known node to the left of the
ft> root and a known node that's to the right of the root.  [...]

This sounds like a small scale version of what the HP researchers did,
except they applied client-side caching for *all* internal B-tree nodes.

  A practical scalable distributed B-tree
  Aguilera and Golab
  HPL-2007-193

In the event that client caches are stale, the clients can figure that
out and get up-to-date copies of the internal nodes.

-Scott