Causal request traces are valuable to developers of large concurrent and distributed applications, yet difficult to obtain. Traces show how a request is processed, and can be anal...
Exploiting spatial locality is critical for a disk scheduler to achieve high throughput. Because of the high cost of disk head seeks and the non-preemptible nature of request serv...
Software prefetching has been demonstrated as a powerful technique to tolerate long load latencies. However, to be effective, prefetching must target the most critical (frequently...
To extract abstract views of the behavior of an object-oriented system for reverse engineering, a body of research exists that analyzes a system’s runtime execution. Those approa...
The Internet is crucial to business, government, education and many other facets of society and its continuing scalability places serious challenges on the routing system's c...