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2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Lessons learned from a year's worth of benchmarks of large data clouds
In this paper, we discuss some of the lessons that we have learned working with the Hadoop and Sector/Sphere systems. Both of these systems are cloud-based systems designed to sup...
Yunhong Gu, Robert L. Grossman
VLDB
2004
ACM
114views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
14 years 28 days ago
Hardware Acceleration in Commercial Databases: A Case Study of Spatial Operations
Traditional databases have focused on the issue of reducing I/O cost as it is the bottleneck in many operations. As databases become increasingly accepted in areas such as Geograp...
Nagender Bandi, Chengyu Sun, Amr El Abbadi, Divyak...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
132views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
A case study of retention practices at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computer science is seeing a decline in enrollment at all levels of education. One key strategy for reversing this decline is to improve methods of student retention. This paper, ...
Tanya L. Crenshaw, Erin W. Chambers, Heather Metca...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Programmability of the HPCS Languages: A case study with a quantum chemistry kernel
As high-end computer systems present users with rapidly increasing numbers of processors, possibly also incorporating attached co-processors, programmers are increasingly challeng...
Aniruddha G. Shet, Wael R. Elwasif, Robert J. Harr...
VISUALIZATION
2002
IEEE
14 years 15 days ago
Exploring Surface Characteristics with Interactive Gaussian Images (A Case Study)
The Gauss map projects surface normals to a unit sphere, providing a powerful visualization of the geometry of a graphical object. It can be used to predict visual events caused b...
Bradley C. Lowekamp, Penny Rheingans, Terry S. Yoo