Many large-scale production parallel programs often run for a very long time and require data checkpoint periodically to save the state of the computation for program restart and/o...
Wei-keng Liao, Kenin Coloma, Alok N. Choudhary, Le...
This paper explores whether features of structured writing can serve to discriminate users of handheld devices such as Palm PDAs. Biometric authentication would obviate the need t...
Rachel R. M. Roberts, Roy A. Maxion, Kevin S. Kill...
Mutual exclusion is used to coordinate access to shared resources by concurrent processes. k-Exclusion is a variant of mutual exclusion in which up to k processes can simultaneous...
We introduce a Write-Once Read-Many (WORM) storage system providing strong assurances of data retention and compliant migration, by leveraging trusted secure hardware in close dat...
Flash devices have been widely used in embedded systems, laptop computers, and enterprise servers. However, the poor random writes have been an obstacle to running write-intensive...