It is known to many researchers in the partitioning community that the recursive bipartitioning approach outperforms the direct non-recursive approach in solving the multiway part...
User-level network interfaces (UNIs) have reduced the overheads of communication by exposing the buffers used by the network interface DMA engine to the applications. This removes...
Modern disk drives read-ahead data and reorder incoming requests in a workload-dependent fashion. This improves their performance, but makes simple analytical models of them inade...
Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilke...
When an artifact is designed the typical output consists of documents describing the final result of a long series of deliberations and tradeoffs by the participants of collaborat...
Query optimizers that explore a search space exhaustively using transformation rules usually apply all possible rules on each alternative, and stop when no new information is prod...