Recent research has found that operators frequently misconfigure Internet services, causing various availability and performance problems. In this paper, we propose a software inf...
Database appliances offer fully integrated hardware, storage, operating system, database, and related software in a single package. Database appliances have a relatively long hist...
Recently TRW fielded a prototype system for a government customer. It provides a wide range of capabilities including data collection, hierarchical storage, automated distribution...
Portable systems such as cell phones and portable media players commonly use non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) to hold all of their data and metadata, and larger systems can store metadata...
Abstract This paper is sort of a confession. Issues of synchrony, asynchrony, and synchronization, arise frequently in designing embedded systems from components, like everyone I k...