Exploiting spatial locality is critical for a disk scheduler to achieve high throughput. Because of the high cost of disk head seeks and the non-preemptible nature of request serv...
Current trends in increasing storage capacity and virtualization of resources combined with the need for energy efficiency put a challenging task in front of system designers. Pre...
Lei Ye, Gen Lu, Sushanth Kumar, Chris Gniady, John...
In this paper, we present the design of a performance isolation benchmark that quantifies the degree to which a virtualization system limits the impact of a misbehaving virtual ma...
With the advent and subsequent popularity of portable computers, power management of system components has become an important issue. Current portable computers implement a number...
Kester Li, Roger Kumpf, Paul Horton, Thomas E. And...
Due to the ever-widening performance gap between processors and disks, I/O operations tend to become the major performance bottleneck of data-intensive applications on modern clus...
Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Xiao Qin, Dan Feng, David ...