Sac is a functional array processing language particularly designed with numerical applications in mind. In this field the runtime performance of programs critically depends on the...
Relational database systems have traditionally optimzed for I/O performance and organized records sequentially on disk pages using the N-ary Storage Model (NSM) (a.k.a., slotted p...
Anastassia Ailamaki, David J. DeWitt, Mark D. Hill...
This paper makes the case for the use of XOR-based placement functions for cache memories. It shows that these XOR-mapping schemes can eliminate many conflict misses for direct-ma...
Background: The Ensembl web site has provided access to genomic information for almost 10 years. During this time the amount of data available through Ensembl has grown dramatical...
Anne Parker, Eugene Bragin, Simon Brent, Bethan Pr...
Online auction sites have very specific workloads and user behavior characteristics. Previous studies on workload characterization conducted by the authors showed that i) bidding a...