Because of information ubiquity, one observes an important trend towards transferring information management tasks from database systems to networks. We introduce the notion of Da...
—Traditional operating systems differentiate between threads, which are managed by the kernel scheduler, and interrupt handlers, which are scheduled by the hardware. This approac...
Wanja Hofer, Daniel Lohmann, Fabian Scheler, Wolfg...
While the cost per megabyte of magnetic disk storage is economical, organizations are alarmed by the increasing cost of managing storage. Storage Area Network (SAN) architectures ...
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Shan Gao, Chris Gahagan, ...
Electrical energy is a high quality form of energy that can be easily converted to other forms of energy with high efficiency and, even more importantly, it can be used to control...
Massoud Pedram, Naehyuck Chang, Younghyun Kim, Yan...
Hard-disk drive power consumption reduction methods focus mainly on increasing the amount of time the disk is in standby mode (disk spun down) by implementing aggressive data read...