The aggressive evolution of the semiconductor industry — smaller process geometries, higher densities, and greater chip complexity — has provided design engineers the means to...
As database application performance depends on the utilization of the memory hierarchy, smart data placement plays a central role in increasing locality and in improving memory ut...
Minglong Shao, Jiri Schindler, Steven W. Schlosser...
The Convex SPP-1000 is the first commercial implementation of a new generation of scalable shared memory parallel computers with full cache coherence. It employs a hierarchical s...
Thomas L. Sterling, Daniel Savarese, Peter MacNeic...
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...
We propose to adapt the newly emerged cache-oblivious model to relational query processing. Our goal is to automatically achieve an overall performance comparable to that of fine-...