Device drivers are a significant source of system instability. In this paper, we make the case for running device drivers at user-level to improve robustness and resource managemen...
RDBMS's have evolved to an extent that they are used to manage almost all of traditional business data in a robust fashion. Nevertheless, a large fraction of unstructured and...
This paper addresses the problem of mapping an application, which is highly dynamic in the future, onto a heterogeneous multiprocessor platform in an energy efficient way. A two-p...
Rudy Lauwereins, Chun Wong, Paul Marchal, Johan Vo...
Task scheduling is an integrated component of computing. With the emergence of grid and ubiquitous computing, newer challenges have arisen in task scheduling. Unlike traditional p...
File systems make use of part of DRAM as the buffer cache to enhance its performance in traditional systems. In this paper, we consider the use of Non-Volatile RAM (NVRAM) as a w...
In Hwan Doh, Hyo J. Lee, Young Je Moon, Eunsam Kim...