The past few decades have witnessed a chronic and widening imbalance among processor bandwidth, disk capacity, and access speed of disk. According to Amdhal's law, the perfor...
Commercial server applications remain memory bound on modern multiprocessor systems because of their large data footprints, frequent sharing, complex non-strided access patterns, ...
Thomas F. Wenisch, Michael Ferdman, Anastasia Aila...
Modern memory systems rely on spatial locality to provide high bandwidth while minimizing memory device power and cost. The trend of increasing the number of cores that share memo...
Min Kyu Jeong, Doe Hyun Yoon, Dam Sunwoo, Mike Sul...
Abstract. Designing and programming dependable distributed applications is very difficult. Databases provide features like transactions and replication that can help in the impleme...
This paper describes an efficient optimistic concurrency control scheme for use in distributed database systems in which objects are cached and manipulated at client machines whil...
Atul Adya, Robert Gruber, Barbara Liskov, Umesh Ma...