Fragmentation leads to unpredictable and degraded application performance. While these problems have been studied in detail for desktop filesystem workloads, this study examines n...
: Many defense, homeland security, and commercial security objectives require continuous tracking of mobile entities such as aircraft. The systems that perform these functions prod...
Interpretation of FIFO Replacement Daniel Grund and Jan Reineke Saarland University, Saarbr?ucken, Germany In hard real-time systems, the execution time of programs must be bounded...
Automated physical design tuning for database systems has recently become an active area of research and development. Existing tuning tools explore the space of feasible solutions...
Effective data placement strategies can enhance the performance of data-intensive applications implemented on high end computing clusters. Such strategies can have a significant i...