File systems make use of part of DRAM as the buffer cache to enhance its performance in traditional systems. In this paper, we consider the use of Non-Volatile RAM (NVRAM) as a w...
In Hwan Doh, Hyo J. Lee, Young Je Moon, Eunsam Kim...
The advent of networking technologies and high performance transport protocols facilitates the service of storage over networks. However, they pose challenges in integration and i...
Jiesheng Wu, Pete Wyckoff, Dhabaleswar K. Panda, R...
A key performance measure for the World Wide Web is the speed with which content is served to users. As traffic on the Web increases, users are faced with increasing delays and fa...
David R. Karger, Alex Sherman, Andy Berkheimer, Bi...
Speculative service implies that a client's request for a document is serviced by sending, in addition to the document requested, a number of other documents (or pointers the...
The increasing use of the web for serving http content, for database transactions, etc. can place heavy stress on servers. Flash crowds can occur at a server when there is a burst ...