This paper characterizes the workload seen at the storage subsystem of an e-commerce system. Measurements are conducted on multi-tiered systems running three different benchmarks,...
One of the most distinctive features of the JavaT M programming language is the ability to specify class loading policies. Despite the popularity of class loaders, little has been ...
This paper proposes a scheme for scheduling disk requests that takes advantage of the ability of high-level functions to operate directly at individual disk drives. We show that s...
Erik Riedel, Christos Faloutsos, Gregory R. Ganger...
Stride prefetching is recognized as an important technique to improve memory access performance. The prior work usually profiles and/or analyzes the program behavior offline, and u...
In most modern operating systems, a process is a -protected abstraction for isolating code and data. This protection, however, is selective. Many common mechanisms—dynamic code ...