The backends of today’s Internet services rely heavily on caching at various layers both to provide faster service to common requests and to reduce load on back-end components. ...
Alexander Rasmussen, Emre Kiciman, V. Benjamin Liv...
The basic system timer facilities used by applications and OS kernels for scheduling timeouts and periodic activities have remained largely unchanged for decades, while hardware a...
Simon Peter, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Roscoe, Paul ...
Parallax is a distributed storage system that uses virtualization to provide storage facilities specifically for virtual environments. The system employs a novel architecture in ...
Dutch T. Meyer, Gitika Aggarwal, Brendan Cully, Ge...
Vision-based user interfaces enable natural interaction modalities such as gestures. Such interfaces require computationally intensive video processing at low latency. We demonstr...
Ming-yu Chen, Lily B. Mummert, Padmanabhan Pillai,...
The fine-grained parallelism inherent in FPGAs has encouraged their use in packet processing systems. Debugging and performance evaluation of such complex designs can be signifi...
Paul Edward McKechnie, Michaela Blott, Wim Vanderb...