To search the web quickly, search engines partition the web index over many machines, and consult every partition when answering a query. To increase throughput, replicas are adde...
Costin Raiciu, Felipe Huici, Mark Handley, David S...
As scientific research becomes more data intensive, there is an increasing need for scalable, reliable, and high performance storage systems. Such data repositories must provide b...
Hoang Bui, Peter Bui, Patrick J. Flynn, Douglas Th...
There are two popular parallel I/O programming styles used by modern scientific computational applications: unique-file and shared-file. Unique-file I/O usually gives satisfactory ...
Kui Gao, Wei-keng Liao, Arifa Nisar, Alok N. Choud...
We present the application of the Planning by Rewriting PbR framework to query planning in distributed and heterogeneous environments. PbR is a new paradigm for e cient high-quali...
Cloud computing has seen tremendous growth, particularly for commercial web applications. The on-demand, pay-as-you-go model creates a flexible and cost-effective means to access c...
Keith R. Jackson, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Krishna Mu...