The DataLinks technology developed at IBM Almaden Research Center and now available in DB2 UDB 5.2 introduces a new data type called DATALINK for a database to reference and manag...
Exploiting thread level parallelism is paramount in the multi-core era. Transactions enable programmers to expose such parallelism by greatly simplifying the multi-threaded progra...
Hardware transactional memory has great potential to simplify the creation of correct and efficient multithreaded programs, allowing programmers to exploit more effectively the s...
Colin Blundell, Joe Devietti, E. Christopher Lewis...
Cloud computing promises large-scale and seamless access to vast quantities of data across the globe. Applications will demand the reliability, consistency, and performance of a t...
Marc Eshel, Roger L. Haskin, Dean Hildebrand, Mano...
Recently, power has emerged as a critical factor in designing components of storage systems, especially for power-hungry data centers. While there is some research into power-awar...