Abstract: Decision support systems (DSS) and data warehousing workloads comprise an increasing fraction of the database market today. I/O capacity and associated processing require...
Kimberly Keeton, David A. Patterson, Joseph M. Hel...
Contemporary long-term storage devices feature powerful embedded processors and sizeable memory buffers. Active Storage Devices (ASD) is the hard disk technology that makes use of ...
Swarm Intelligence has been a successful approach to solve some combinatorial problems through the metaphor of interacting evolving individuals of a a population P in a closed toru...
Controlling energy usage in data centers, and storage in particular, continues to rise in importance. Many systems and models have examined energy efficiency through intelligent sp...
The mean first passage time (MFPT) is calculated for a Brownian particle in a bounded two-dimensional domain that contains N small nonoverlapping absorbing windows on its boundary....
S. Pillay, Michael J. Ward, A. Peirce, Theodore Ko...