The performance of a database system depends strongly on the layout of database objects, such as indexes or tables, onto the underlying storage devices. A good layout will both ba...
Though plenty of research has been conducted to improve Internet P2P streaming quality perceived by endusers, little has been known about the upper bounds of achievable performanc...
The increasing availability of commodity multicore processors is making parallel computing available to the masses. Traditional parallel languages are largely intended for large-s...
Matthew Fluet, Mike Rainey, John H. Reppy, Adam Sh...
Abstract—Performance and power issues are becoming increasingly important in the design of large cluster based multitier data centers for supporting a multitude of services. Desi...
According to a survey of the University of Berkeley [6], about 5 Exabytes of new information has been created in 2002. This information explosion affects also the database volumes...