Flash SSDs are quickly becoming mainstream and emerge as alternatives to magnetic disks. It is therefore imperative to incorporate them seamlessly into the enterprise. We present ...
Large-scale web and text retrieval systems deal with amounts of data that greatly exceed the capacity of any single machine. To handle the necessary data volumes and query through...
The exploration in many scientific disciplines (e.g., High-Energy Physics, Climate Modeling, and Life Sciences) involves the production and the analysis of massive data collection...
Efficient index construction in multidimensional data spaces is important for many knowledge discovery algorithms, because construction times typically must be amortized by perform...
In high-end grid networks, distributed resources (scientific instruments, CPUs, storages, etc.) are interconnected to support computing-intensive and data-intensive applications, w...