Handling audio and video in a digital environment requires timely delivery of data. This paper describes the principles adopted in the design of the Pandora networked multi-media ...
Abstract—We present reliability solutions for adaptable Network RAM systems running on general-purpose clusters. Network RAM allows nodes with over-committed memory to swap pages...
The performance of Web servers and application servers is a crucial factor for the success of the underlying business activity. Current commercial servers (such as Apache and Micr...
Mohammad Shadi Al Hakeem, Jan Richling, Gero M&uum...
Modern transactional response-time sensitive applications have run into practical limits on the size of garbage collected heaps. The heap can only grow until GC pauses exceed the ...
Interprocess communication (IPC) is an important phenomenon in distributed computing and operating systems. Microkernels of modern operating systems use synchronous IPC semantics f...