The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.

Abstract: Building multiple hash tables serves as a very successful technique for gigantic data indexing, which can simultaneously guarantee both the search accuracy and efficiency. However, most of ...

Abstract: Chord DHT (Distributed Hash Table) is a robust solution to a basic problem encountered in peer-to-peer (P2P) applications: efficiently locating the node that stores specific data items. In ...

It isn't often that a decades-old assumption underpinning modern technology is overturned, but a recent paper based on the work of an undergraduate and his two co-authors has done just that. That ...

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People have been working on perfecting hashing since computing's early days. The result has been an almost endless number of hashing methods and tables. Facebook has faced this problem as well. Within ...

This is just a brainstorming issue for concurrent hash tables. @Amanieu, do you think we could make hashbrown concurrent by having a lock per bucket? When resizing the table we'd probably have to lock ...