2021.08.25
The research on transactions by Associate Professor Hideyuki Kawashima of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies and his colleagues won the Outstanding Research Award at xSIG (a conference on information infrastructure systems hosted by the Information Processing Society of Japan that follows in the footsteps of JSPP, SACSIS, and ACSI), and the award ceremony was held on July 19.
In their paper titled "Analysis of Concurrency Control Optimization for Highly Contended Workloads," Associate Professor Kawashima and his colleagues proposed a new optimization method for transaction processing. By applying this method, they surprisingly discovered that the Silo optimistic concurrency control method demonstrates high performance in highly contended workloads, which was considered its weakness.
Comment from Associate Professor Hideyuki Kawashima, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
From left: Associate Professor Kawashima, Mr. Masumura, and co-recipient Mr. Hoshino
The Silo protocol is considered simple, elegant, high-performing, and highly practical. However, it was thought that it could not perform well in highly contended workloads. But this method overcomes that weakness, making this simple method available in a wide range of situations. As the integration of real and cyber spaces progresses, an enormous number of transactions will occur to maintain consistency between the two spaces, and we were able to present a simple, robust, and high-performance system design for that future.
Comment from Yasunari Masumura (First-Year Master's Student, Graduate School of Media and Governance)
This paper is based on the content of my graduation project, and it is a great encouragement to have my research activities as an undergraduate student recognized. From now on, in graduate school, I want to engage in research that is both interesting and beneficial to the world.
Source: General Affairs Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office