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SIGOPS
2010
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Are clouds ready for large distributed applications?
Cloud computing carries the promise of providing powerful ls and abstractions that could transform the way IT services are delivered today. In order to establish the readiness of ...
Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, Sambit Sahu, Yaoping Rua...
SIGOPS
2010
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Semantic-less coordination of power management and application performance
A computer system often has multiple power management modules controlling different power knobs. Uncoordinated operation of these knobs not only leads to suboptimal operation but ...
Aman Kansal, Jie Liu, Abhishek Singh, Ripal Nathuj...
SIGOPS
2010
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Storing and accessing live mashup content in the cloud
Today’s Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies such as Ajax, Flex, or Silverlight, are designed around the client-server paradigm and cannot easily take advantage of repli...
Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman
SIGOPS
2010
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Scaling a monitoring infrastructure for the Akamai network
We describe the design of, and experience with, Query, a monitoring system that supports the Akamai EdgePlatform. Query is a foundation of Akamai’s approach to administering its...
Thomas Repantis, Jeff Cohen, Scott Smith, Joel Wei...
SIGOPS
2010
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The case for a versatile storage system
Storage systems in emerging large-scale (a.k.a. peta-scale) computing systems often introduce a performance or scalability bottleneck. To deal with these limitations we propose a ...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Matei Ripean...
SIGOPS
2010
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Empirical evaluation of NAND flash memory performance
Reports of NAND flash device testing in the literature have for the most part been limited to examination of circuit-level parameters on raw flash chips or prototypes, and syste...
Peter Desnoyers
SIGOPS
2010
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A unified execution model for cloud computing
Eric Van Hensbergen, Noah Paul Evans, Phillip Stan...
SIGOPS
2010
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The Akamai network: a platform for high-performance internet applications
Comprising more than 61,000 servers located across nearly 1,000 networks in 70 countries worldwide, the Akamai platform delivers hundreds of billions of Internet interactions dail...
Erik Nygren, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, Jennifer Sun
SIGOPS
2010
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QoS-oriented control of server systems
Multi-tier architectures are widely used by internet applications. Guaranteeing the performance, and more generally the quality of service (QoS), of such applications remains a cr...
Luc Malrait
SIGOPS
2010
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FastAD: an authenticated directory for billions of objects
We develop techniques that make authenticated directories efficient and scalable toward the goal of managing tens of billions of objects in a single directory. Internet storage s...
Paul T. Stanton, Benjamin McKeown, Randal C. Burns...