Systems that use or serve multimedia data require timely access to data on hard drives. To ensure adequate performance users must either prevent overload of disk resources, or use...
One of the most difficult tasks in the design of information systems is how to control the behaviour of the back-end storage engine, usually a relational database. As the load on t...
Data grid is a kind of wide-area, distributed storage system. It can provide huge storage capacity. There are millions of files in data grid, distributed on hundreds of geographi...
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The design and implementation of a modern microprocessor creates many reliability challenges. Designers must verify the correctness of large complex systems and construct implemen...
Saugata Chatterjee, Christopher T. Weaver, Todd M....
—Autonomic computing is a paradigm that aims at reducing administrative overhead by providing autonomic managers to make applications self-managing. In order to better deal with ...
Ahmad Al-Shishtawy, Vladimir Vlassov, Per Brand, S...