Grid computing provides a very rich environment for scientific calculations. In addition to the challenges it provides, it also offers new opportunities for optimization. In this ...
Bingchen Li, Kang Chen, Zhiteng Huang, H. L. Rajic...
In this paper we consider the problem of answering queries using views, which is important for data integration, query optimization, and data warehouses. We consider its simplest ...
Impulse is a new memory system architecture that adds two important features to a traditional memory controller. First, Impulse supports application-specific optimizations through...
John B. Carter, Wilson C. Hsieh, Leigh Stoller, Ma...
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
Enterprises may have multiple database systems spread across the organization for redundancy or for serving different applications. In such systems, query workloads can be distrib...