Although compile-time optimizations generally improve program performance, degradations caused by individual techniques are to be expected. One promising research direction to ove...
—Until recently, most high-end scientific applications have been immune to performance problems caused by NonUniform Memory Access (NUMA). However, current trends in micro-proces...
Designers of distributed systems often rely on replicas for increased robustness, scalability, and performance. Replicated server architectures require some technique to select a ...
—The class of modern datacenters recently coined as “warehouse scale computers” (WSCs) has traditionally been embraced as homogeneous computing platforms. However, due to fre...
The growth of business enterprises and the emergence of the Internet as a medium for data processing has led to a proliferation of applications that are server-centric. The power ...