— MapReduce has become an effective approach to big data analytics in large cluster systems, where SQL-like queries play important roles to interface between users and systems. H...
In this demo we present the cgmOLAP server, the first fully functional parallel OLAP system able to build data cubes at a rate of more than 1 Terabyte per hour. cgmOLAP incorporat...
Ying Chen, Andrew Rau-Chaplin, Frank K. H. A. Dehn...
Superscalar microprocessor efficiency is generally not as high as anticipated. In fact, sustained utilization below thirty percent of peak is not uncommon, even for fully optimized...
Garbage collection can be a performance bottleneck in large distributed, multi-threaded applications. Applications may produce millions of objects during their lifetimes and may i...
Rapid commoditization of advanced hardware and progress of networking technology is now making wide area high-performance computing a.k.a. the ‘Grid’ Computing a reality. Sinc...