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SIGMOD
2001
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
Improving Index Performance through Prefetching
This paper proposes and evaluates Prefetching B+ -Trees pB+ -Trees, which use prefetching to accelerate two important operations on B+ -Tree indices: searches and range scans. To ...
Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Todd C. Mowry
ESCIENCE
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
High-Performance Task Distribution for Volunteer Computing
Volunteer computing projects use a task server to manage work. Clients periodically communicate with the server to report completed tasks and get new tasks. The rate at which the ...
David P. Anderson, Eric Korpela, Rom Walton
GRID
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
High Performance Threaded Data Streaming for Large Scale Simulations
We have developed a threaded parallel data streaming approach using Logistical Networking (LN) to transfer multi-terabyte simulation data from computers at NERSC to our local anal...
Viraj Bhat, Scott Klasky, Scott Atchley, Micah Bec...
CHI
2001
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Orchestrating a mixed reality performance
A study of a professional touring mixed reality performance called Desert Rain yields insights into how performers orchestrate players' engagement in an interactive experienc...
Boriana Koleva, Chris Greenhalgh, Christian Heath,...
ICPP
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Mercury: Combining Performance with Dependability Using Self-virtualization
There has recently been increasing interests in using system virtualization to improve the dependability of HPC cluster systems. However, it is not cost-free and may come with som...
Haibo Chen, Rong Chen, Fengzhe Zhang, Binyu Zang, ...