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MASCOTS
2001
13 years 8 months ago
2001
Recent increases in CPU performance have surpassed those in hard drives. As a result, disk operations have become more expensive in terms of the number of CPU cycles spent waiting...
ICWS
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2009
IEEE
The main memory management has been a critical issue to provide high performance in web cluster systems. To overcome the speed gap between processors and disks, many prefetch sche...
HPDC
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
1999
IEEE
In this paper, we present the design and implementation of Dodo, an e cient user-level system for harvesting idle memory in o -the-shelf clusters of workstations. Dodo enables dat...
HOTOS
1993
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
1993
IEEE
I argue against trying to solve the problem of clustering objects into disk pages. Instead, I propose that objects be fetched in groups that may be specific to an application or ...
MMS
2000
13 years 7 months ago
2000
Excessive buffer requirement to handle continuous-media playbacks is an impediment to costeffective provisioning for on-line video retrieval. Given the skewed distribution of video...