Concurrent garbage collectors require write barriers to preserve consistency, but these barriers impose significant direct and indirect costs. While there has been a lot of work ...
Emerging non-volatile memory technologies such as phase change memory (PCM) promise to increase storage system performance by a wide margin relative to both conventional disks and ...
Adrian M. Caulfield, Arup De, Joel Coburn, Todor I...
Compressed bitmap indexes are increasingly used for efficiently querying very large and complex databases. The Word Aligned Hybrid (WAH) bitmap compression scheme is commonly rec...
Many large-scale production parallel programs often run for a very long time and require data checkpoint periodically to save the state of the computation for program restart and/o...
Wei-keng Liao, Kenin Coloma, Alok N. Choudhary, Le...
Recently, flash memory is emerging as the storage device. With price sliding fast, the cost per capacity is approaching to that of SATA disk drives. So far flash memory has been ...