For operating system intensive applications, the ability of designers to understand system call performance behavior is essential to achieving high performance. Conventional perfo...
— In this paper, we present a design for a generic, open, application-oriented performance instrumentation of multitier applications. Measurements are performed through configur...
Markus Schmid, Marcus Thoss, Thomas Termin, Reinho...
The emergence of global-scale online services has galvanized scale-out software, characterized by splitting vast datasets and massive computation across many independent servers. ...
Pejman Lotfi-Kamran, Boris Grot, Michael Ferdman, ...
Building commodity networked storage systems is an important architectural trend; Commodity servers hosting a moderate number of consumer-grade disks and interconnected with a hig...
Geography is becoming increasingly important in web search. Search engines can often return better results to users by analyzing features such as user location or geographic terms...
Qingqing Gan, Josh Attenberg, Alexander Markowetz,...