Informed prefetching and caching based on application disclosure of future I/O accesses (hints) can dramatically reduce the execution time of I/O-intensive applications. A recent ...
Andrew Tomkins, R. Hugo Patterson, Garth A. Gibson
Power, energy, and thermal concerns have constrained embedded systems designs. Computing capability and storage density have increased dramatically, enabling the emergence of hand...
The performance of streaming media servers has been limited due to the dual requirements of high throughput and low memory use. Although disk throughput has been enjoying a 40% an...
Raju Rangaswami, Zoran Dimitrijevic, Edward Y. Cha...
Parallax is a distributed storage system that uses virtualization to provide storage facilities specifically for virtual environments. The system employs a novel architecture in ...
Dutch T. Meyer, Gitika Aggarwal, Brendan Cully, Ge...
Most database systems use ARIES-like logging and recovery scheme to recover from failures and guarantee transactional consistency. ARIES relies on the Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) pr...
Robin Dhamankar, Hanuma Kodavalla, Vishal Kathuria