Video-on-demand (VoD) is increasingly popular with Internet users. It gives users greater choice and more control than live streaming or file downloading. Systems such as MSN Vid...
Data centers are often under-utilized due to over-provisioning as well as time-varying resource demands of typical enterprise applications. One approach to increase resource utili...
Pradeep Padala, Kang G. Shin, Xiaoyun Zhu, Mustafa...
Two oft-cited file systems, the Fast File System (FFS) and the Log-Structured File System (LFS), adopt two sharply different update strategies—update-in-place and update-out-of-...
Embedded systems serve an emerging and diverse set of applications. As a result, more computational and storage capabilities are added to accommodate ever more demanding applicati...
LOFAR is the first of a new generation of radio telescopes, that combines the signals from many thousands of simple, fixed antennas, rather than from expensive dishes. Its revol...
John W. Romein, P. Chris Broekema, Ellen van Meije...