Snoopy cache coherence protocols broadcast requests to all nodes, reducing the latency of cache to cache transfer misses at the expense of increasing interconnect power. We propos...
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) involve the manipulation of large spatial data sets, and the performance of these systems is often determined by how these data sets are orga...
Akhil Kumar, Waleed A. Muhanna, Raymond A. Patters...
This paper presents and evaluates the storage management and caching in PAST, a large-scale peer-to-peer persistent storage utility. PAST is based on a self-organizing, Internetba...
Journaling is a widely used technique to increase file system robustness against metadata and/or data corruptions. While the overhead of journaling can be masked by the page cache...
Sarp Oral, Feiyi Wang, David Dillow, Galen M. Ship...
This paper describes the design and evaluation of SAM, a shared object system for distributed memory machines. SAM is a portable run-time system that provides a global name space ...