We present a task-based taxonomy of navigation techniques for 3D virtual environments, used to categorize existing techniques, drive exploration of the design space, and inspire n...
Desney S. Tan, George G. Robertson, Mary Czerwinsk...
Most general-purpose processors provide support for memory pages of large sizes, called superpages. Superpages enable each entry in the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) to map a...
Juan Navarro, Sitaram Iyer, Peter Druschel, Alan L...
Three experimental environments traditionally support network and distributed systems research: network emulators, network simulators, and live networks. The continued use of mult...
Brian White, Jay Lepreau, Leigh Stoller, Robert Ri...
Many scenarios involve merging of two B-tree indexes, both covering the same key range. Increasing demand for continuous availability and high performance requires that such mergi...
Xiaowei Sun, Rui Wang 0002, Betty Salzberg, Chendo...
We are developing a distributed query processor called PIER, which is designed to run on the scale of the entire Internet. PIER utilizes a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) as its comm...
Brent N. Chun, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ryan Huebsch...