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ICDCS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
STEP: Sequentiality and Thrashing Detection Based Prefetching to Improve Performance of Networked Storage Servers
State-of-the-art networked storage servers are equipped with increasingly powerful computing capability and large DRAM memory as storage caches. However, their contribution to the...
Shuang Liang, Song Jiang, Xiaodong Zhang
MASCOTS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Modeling Software Contention using Colored Petri Nets
Commercial servers, such as database or application servers, often attempt to improve performance via multithreading. Improper multi-threading architectures can incur contention, ...
Nilabja Roy, Akshay Dabholkar, Nathan Hamm, Lawren...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Improving MPI Independent Write Performance Using A Two-Stage Write-Behind Buffering Method
Many large-scale production applications often have very long executions times and require periodic data checkpoints in order to save the state of the computation for program rest...
Wei-keng Liao, Avery Ching, Kenin Coloma, Alok N. ...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Improving the Throughput of Synchronization by Insertion of Delays
Efficiency of synchronization mechanisms can limit the parallel performance of many shared-memory applications. In addition, the ever increasing performance gap between processor...
Ravi Rajwar, Alain Kägi, James R. Goodman
IPPS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Composite Abortable Locks
The need to allow threads to abort an attempt to acquire a lock (sometimes called a timeout) is an interesting new requirement driven by state-of-the-art database applications wit...
Virendra J. Marathe, Mark Moir, Nir Shavit