As high-speed networks make it easier to use distributed resources, it becomes increasingly common that applications and their data are not colocated. Users have traditionally add...
Ian T. Foster, David Kohr, Rakesh Krishnaiyer, Jac...
Applications running on a UNIX platform need to be notified when some activity occurs on a socket or other descriptor, and this is traditionally done with the select() or poll() s...
We propose a new parallel, noncollective I/O strategy called Distant I/O that targets clustered computer systems in which disks are attached to compute nodes. Distant I/O allows o...
Much work has been done on characterizing the workload of a database system. Previous studies focused on providing different types of statistical summaries, and modeling the run-ti...
In distributed database systems, tables are frequently fragmented and replicated over a number of sites in order to reduce network communication costs. How to fragment, when to rep...
Jon Olav Hauglid, Norvald H. Ryeng, Kjetil N&oslas...