We present an approach to dealing with skew in parallel joins in database systems. Our approach is easily implementable within current parallel DBMS, and performs well on skewed d...
David J. DeWitt, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Donovan A. S...
Scheduling jobs on the IBM SP2 system is usually done by giving each job a partition of the machine for its exclusive use. Allocating such partitions in the order that the jobs ar...
Grid is a rapidly growing new technology that will provide easy access to huge amounts of computer resources, both hardware and software. As these resources become available soon,...
Screen readers, the dominant assistive technology used by visually impaired people to access the Web, function by speaking out the content of the screen serially. Using screen rea...
Jalal Mahmud, Yevgen Borodin, I. V. Ramakrishnan, ...
- Multi-core chips present a new computing environment that can benefit from software support for non-numerical applications. Heterogeneous cores will allow efficient sophisticated...