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2007
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2007
In many environments, a computer system is severely constrained to the extent that the practical input mechanisms are merely binary switches. Requiring the user to remember a long...
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2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
Users are storing ever-increasing amounts of information digitally, driven by many factors including government regulations and the public’s desire to digitally record their per...
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2007
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2007
Current approaches to power management are based on operating systems with full knowledge of and full control over the underlying hardware; the distributed nature of multi-layered...
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2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
Online content distribution has increasingly gained popularity among the entertainment industry and the consumers alike. A key challenge in online content distribution is a cost-e...
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2007
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2007
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2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
This paper focuses on evaluation of the effectiveness of optimization at various layers of the IO path, such as the file system, the device driver scheduler, and the disk drive i...
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2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
Content-based naming (CBN) enables content sharing across similar files by breaking files into positionindependent chunks and naming these chunks using hashes of their contents....
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2007
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2007
Data Structure Abstractions for Asynchronous Web Applications Daniel S. Myers MIT CSAIL Jennifer N. Carlisle MIT CSAIL James A. Cowling MIT CSAIL Barbara H. Liskov MIT CSAIL The c...
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2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
USENIX
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
Memory state can be corrupted by the impact of particles causing single-event upsets (SEUs). Understanding and dealing with these soft (or transient) errors is important for syste...