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DASFAA
2004
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
Efficient Declustering of Non-uniform Multidimensional Data Using Shifted Hilbert Curves
Abstract. Data declustering speeds up large data set retrieval by partitioning the data across multiple disks or sites and performing retrievals in parallel. Performance is determi...
Hak-Cheol Kim, Mario A. Lopez, Scott T. Leutenegge...
USENIX
2001
13 years 6 months ago
User-Level Checkpointing for LinuxThreads Programs
Multiple threads running in a single, shared address space is a simple model for writing parallel programs for symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) machines and for overlapping I/O and ...
William R. Dieter, James E. Lumpp Jr.
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Low-Overhead Protocols for Fault-Tolerant File Sharing
In this paper, we quantify the adverse effect of file sharing on the performance of reliable distributed applications. We demonstrate that file sharing incurs significant overhead...
Lorenzo Alvisi, Sriram Rao, Harrick M. Vin
VLDB
2002
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
I/O-Conscious Data Preparation for Large-Scale Web Search Engines
Given that commercial search engines cover billions of web pages, efficiently managing the corresponding volumes of disk-resident data needed to answer user queries quickly is a f...
Maxim Lifantsev, Tzi-cker Chiueh
HPCN
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
PARAFLOW: A Dataflow Distributed Data-Computing System
We describe the Paraflow system for connecting heterogeneous computing services together into a flexible and efficient data-mining metacomputer. There are three levels of parallel...
Roy Williams, Bruce Sears