Most modern RDBMS depend on the query processing optimizer’s cost model to choose the best execution plan for a given query. Since the physical IO (PIO) is a costly operation to...
This paper addresses the problem of scheduling concurrent jobs on clusters where application data is stored on the computing nodes. This setting, in which scheduling computations ...
Michael Isard, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Jon Currey, Ud...
The testing of the performance of opportunistic communication protocols and applications is usually done through simulation as i) deployments are expensive and should be left to t...
Roberta Calegari, Mirco Musolesi, Franco Raimondi,...
Graphics processing units (GPUs) provide a low cost platform for accelerating high performance computations. The introduction of new programming languages, such as CUDA and OpenCL...
Amir Hormati, Mehrzad Samadi, Mark Woh, Trevor N. ...
Navigating through tree structures is a core operation in tree processing programs. Most notably, XML processing programs intensively use XPath, the path specification language t...