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Recent computer systems research has proposed using redundant requests to reduce latency. The idea is to run a request on multiple servers and wait for the first completion (discarding all remaining copies of the request). However there is no exact analysis of systems with redundancy.
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Gardner et al. (2015) studied this question.
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