We establish a new lower bound for the number of sides required for the component curves of simple Venn diagrams made from polygons. Specifically, for any n-Venn diagram of conve...
Modern disk drives read-ahead data and reorder incoming requests in a workload-dependent fashion. This improves their performance, but makes simple analytical models of them inade...
Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilke...
In developing a distributed file system, there are several good reasons for implementing the client file cache manager as a user-level process. These include ease of implementatio...
David C. Steere, James J. Kistler, Mahadev Satyana...
Chip multiprocessors (CMPs) substantially increase capacity pressure on the on-chip memory hierarchy while requiring fast access. Neither private nor shared caches can provide bot...
Zeshan Chishti, Michael D. Powell, T. N. Vijaykuma...
ABSTRACT: Caching is widely recognized as an effective mechanism for improving the performance of the World Wide Web. One of the key components in engineering the Web caching syste...