Data analysis in very large databases requires innovative techniques. In an exploration and discovery scenario, the performance of standard SQL techniques can be unacceptable. Thi...
In this paperweconsidertheproblemof schedulingdifferentclasses of customerson multiple distributed serversto minimize an objective function basedon per-classmeanresponsetimes.This...
—This paper evaluates techniques for improving operating system and network protocol software support for high-performance World Wide Web servers. We study approaches in three ca...
Erich M. Nahum, Tsipora P. Barzilai, Dilip D. Kand...
This paper examines NFS sensitivity to performance characteristics of emerging networks. We adopt an unusual method of inserting controlled delays into live systems to measure sen...
ded Abstract This paper introduces a new technique for compressing memory address traces. The technique relies on the simple observation that most programs spend their time execut...
We collect and analyze a snapshot of data from 10,568 file systems of 4801 Windows personal computers in a commercial environment. The file systems contain 140 million files total...