Over the last twenty years the interfaces for accessing persistent storage within a computer system have remained essentially unchanged. Simply put, seek, read and write have deļ¬...
Xiangyong Ouyang, David W. Nellans, Robert Wipfel,...
Future CMPs will combine many simple cores with deep cache hierarchies. With more cores, cache resources per core are fewer, and must be shared carefully to avoid poor utilization...
Junli Gu, Steven S. Lumetta, Rakesh Kumar, Yihe Su...
At the heart of all garbage collectors lies the process of identifying and processing reference ļ¬elds within an object. Despite its key role, and evidence of many different impl...
Robin Garner, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampto...
A continuous top-k query retrieves the k most preferred objects in a data stream according to a given preference function. These queries are important for a broad spectrum of appl...
Avani Shastri, Di Yang, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Mat...
With the growing adoption of virtualized datacenters and cloud hosting services, the allocation and sizing of resources such as CPU, memory, and I/O bandwidth for virtual machines...
Sajib Kundu, Raju Rangaswami, Ajay Gulati, Ming Zh...