Crash recovery in database systems aims to provide an acceptable level of protection from failure at a given engineering cost. A large number of recovery mechanisms are known, and...
S. Scheuerl, Richard C. H. Connor, Ronald Morrison...
Quality of service (QoS) mechanisms allowing users to request for turn-around time guarantees for their jobs have recently generated much interest. In our previous work we had des...
Mohammad Islam, Pavan Balaji, Gerald Sabin, P. Sad...
The definition of a commodity component is quite obvious when it comes to the PC as a basic compute engine and building block for clusters of PCs. Looking at the options for a mo...
Whereas the established interconnection networks (ICTN) achieve low latency by operating in the linear region, i.e. oversizing the fabric, the recent strict cost and power constrai...
The goal of testing is to discriminate between multiple hypotheses about a system--for example, different fault diagnoses--by applying input patterns and verifying or falsifying t...