Although chip-multiprocessors have become the industry standard, developing parallel applications that target them remains a daunting task. Non-determinism, inherent in threaded a...
Marek Olszewski, Jason Ansel, Saman P. Amarasinghe
We present Schism, a novel workload-aware approach for database partitioning and replication designed to improve scalability of sharednothing distributed databases. Because distri...
Carlo Curino, Yang Zhang, Evan P. C. Jones, Samuel...
Digital content is not only stored by servers on the Internet, but also on various embedded devices belonging to ubiquitous networks. In this paper, we propose a content processin...
This paper details a research methodology that emerged during an inquiry into game design aimed at promoting conceptual learning in physics. The methodology, Research as DesignDes...
As network security is a growing concern, system administrators lock down their networks by closing inbound ports and only allowing outbound communication over selected protocols ...