New storage-class memory (SCM) technologies, such as phasechange memory, STT-RAM, and memristors, promise user-level access to non-volatile storage through regular memory instruct...
Our goal with this paper is to contribute a common theoretical framework for studying the performance of disk-storage devices. Understanding the performance behavior of these devi...
Peter Triantafillou, Stavros Christodoulakis, Cost...
The development of complex scientific applications for high-end systems is a challenging task. Addressing complexity of the involved software and algorithms is becoming increasing...
Manojkumar Krishnan, Yuri Alexeev, Theresa L. Wind...
The selection and control of action is a critical problem for both biological and machine animated systems that must operate in complex real world situations. Visually guided eye ...
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...