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2003
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Quantifying and Improving the Availability of High-Performance Cluster-Based Internet Services
Cluster-based servers can substantially increase performance when nodes cooperate to globally manage resources. However, in this paper we show that cooperation results in a substa...
Kiran Nagaraja, Neeraj Krishnan, Ricardo Bianchini...
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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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16 years 4 months ago
On efficient top-k query processing in highly distributed environments
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
Akrivi Vlachou, Christos Doulkeridis, Kjetil N&osl...
DAC
2007
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
RISPP: Rotating Instruction Set Processing Platform
Adaptation in embedded processing is key in order to address efficiency. The concept of extensible embedded processors works well if a few a-priori known hot spots exist. However,...
Jörg Henkel, Lars Bauer, Muhammad Shafique, S...
DNIS
2007
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
Improving the Performance of Read-Only Transactions Through Speculation
A read-only transaction (ROT) does not modify any data. The main issues regarding processing ROTs are correctness, data currency and performance. Two-phase Locking (2PL) protocol i...
Thirumalaisamy Ragunathan, P. Krishna Reddy
ISPAN
1999
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Performance and Granularity Control in the SPaDES Parallel Simulation System
Parallel simulationhas the potentialto accelerate the execution of simulation applications. However, developing a parallel discrete-event simulation from scratch requires an in-de...
Yong Meng Teo, Seng Chuan Tay