In parallel computing environments such as HPC clusters and the Grid, data-intensive applications involve large overhead costs due to a concentration of access to the files on co...
As database application performance depends on the utilization of the memory hierarchy, smart data placement plays a central role in increasing locality and in improving memory ut...
Minglong Shao, Jiri Schindler, Steven W. Schlosser...
Energy consumption is a major and costly problem in data centers. A large fraction of this energy goes to powering idle machines that are not doing any useful work. We identify tw...
Andrew Krioukov, Prashanth Mohan, Sara Alspaugh, L...
To achieve optimal performance, garbage-collected applications must balance the sizes of their heaps dynamically. Sizing the heap too small can reduce throughput by increasing the...
Matthew Hertz, Stephen Kane, Elizabeth Keudel, Ton...
Energy efficiency and power capping remain growing concerns in server systems. Online applications continue to evolve with new features and dynamic clientdirected processing, res...
Kai Shen, Arrvindh Shriraman, Sandhya Dwarkadas, X...