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A File Is Not a File: Understanding the I/O Behavior of Apple Desktop Applications
We analyze the I/O behavior of iBench, a new collection of productivity and multimedia application workloads. Our analysis reveals a number of differences between iBench and typic...
Tyler Harter, Chris Dragga, Michael Vaughn, Andrea...
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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Participatory design in a human-computer interaction course: teaching ethnography methods to computer scientists
Empirical evidence shows the ability for computer technology to deliver on its promises of enhancing our quality of life relies on how well the application fits our understanding ...
Jerry B. Weinberg, Mary L. Stephen
CIDR
2007
141views Algorithms» more  CIDR 2007»
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Fragmentation in Large Object Repositories
Fragmentation leads to unpredictable and degraded application performance. While these problems have been studied in detail for desktop filesystem workloads, this study examines n...
Russell Sears, Catharine van Ingen