Server virtualization more readily enables the collocation of disparate workloads on a shared physical platform. When employed on systems across a data center, the result can be a...
Self-tuning is a cost-effective and elegant solution to the important problem of configuring a database to the characteristics of the query load. Existing techniques operate in an...
Karl Schnaitter, Serge Abiteboul, Tova Milo, Neokl...
Within-die variation in leakage power consumption is substantial and increasing for chip-level multiprocessors (CMPs) and multiprocessor systems-on-chip. Dealing with this problem...
Lide Zhang, Lan S. Bai, Robert P. Dick, Li Shang, ...
We explore the emerging application area of physics-based simulation for computer animation and visual special effects. In particular, we examine its parallelization potential and...
Christopher J. Hughes, Radek Grzeszczuk, Eftychios...
We performed an empirical study to characterize factors that affect which bugs get fixed in Windows Vista and Windows 7, focusing on factors related to bug report edits and relat...
Philip J. Guo, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagap...