Low priority data transfer across the wide area is useful in several contexts, for example for the dissemination of large files such as OS updates, content distribution or prefet...
Web caching keeps single Web objects ready somewhere in caches in the user-to-server path, whereas database caching uses fullfledged database management systems as caches to adapt...
A novel Hardware Assisted Top-Doc (HAT) component is disclosed. HAT is an optimized content indexing device based on a modified inverted index structure. HAT accommodates patterns...
In this paper, we address the problem of choosing a disk admission algorithm for continuous media streams where each stream may have a di erent bit rate, and more importantly, whe...
Dwight J. Makaroff, Gerald W. Neufeld, Norman C. H...
Low-overhead message passing is critical to the performance of many applications. Active Messages[27] reduce the software overhead for message handling: messages are run as handle...
Deborah A. Wallach, Wilson C. Hsieh, Kirk L. Johns...