One of the most serious issues holding back the widespread of 3D contents on Internet has been their inaccessibility due to large data volume. Many compression and progressive tra...
Recent research shows that the high occupancy of Coherence Controllers (CCs) is a major performance bottleneck in scalable shared-memory multiprocessors. In this paper, we propose...
Cluster-based storage systems are popular for data-intensive applications and it is desirable yet challenging to provide incremental expansion and high availability while achievin...
Hong Tang, Aziz Gulbeden, Jingyu Zhou, William Str...
ALPS is a per-application user-level proportional-share scheduler that operates with low overhead and without any special kernel support. ALPS is useful to a range of applications...
This paper applies Lehman's theory of software evolution to analyse the characteristics of web-based applications and identifies the essences and incidents that cause difficu...