A major performance bottleneck for database systems is the memory hierarchy. The performance of the memory hierarchy is directly related to how the content of disk pages maps to t...
IP-networked storage protocols such as NFS and iSCSI have become increasingly common in today's LAN environments. In this paper, we experimentally compare NFS and iSCSI perfo...
Peter Radkov, Li Yin, Pawan Goyal, Prasenjit Sarka...
Internet service utilities host multiple server applications on a shared server cluster. A key challenge for these systems is to provision shared resources on demand to meet servi...
Ronald P. Doyle, Jeffrey S. Chase, Omer M. Asad, W...
Content distribution networks (CDNs) increase the capacity of individual Web sites and attempt to deliver content from caches that are located "closer" to end-users than...
Alexandros Biliris, Charles D. Cranor, Fred Dougli...
The performance of both serial and parallel implementations of matrix multiplication is highly sensitive to memory system behavior. False sharing and cache conflicts cause traditi...
Siddhartha Chatterjee, Alvin R. Lebeck, Praveen K....