In the last few decades, several studies have found the same technology implemented in highly similar organizational settings to be associated with very different consequences for...
Most database systems (DBMSs) today are operating on servers equipped with magnetic disks. In our contribution, we want to motivate the use of two emerging and striking technologi...
Accurate instruction fetch and branch prediction is increasingly important on today’s wide-issue architectures. Fetch prediction is the process of determining the next instructi...
Modern VLSI technology has changed the economic rules by which the balance between processing power, memory and communications is decided in computing systems. This will have a pr...
Resource allocation in database management systems is a performance management process in which an autonomic DBMS makes resource allocation decisions based on properties like work...
Mingyi Zhang, Patrick Martin, Wendy Powley, Paul B...