Operating systems were created to provide multiple tasks with access to scarce hardware resources like CPU, memory, or storage. Modern programmable hardware, however, may contain ...
In this paper, we discuss some of the lessons that we have learned working with the Hadoop and Sector/Sphere systems. Both of these systems are cloud-based systems designed to sup...
The scalability of future massively parallel processing (MPP) systems is being severely challenged by high failure rates. Current hard disk drive (HDD) checkpointing results in ov...
Xiangyu Dong, Naveen Muralimanohar, Norman P. Joup...
Abstract. Newistic is a web mining platform that collects and analyses documents crawled from the Internet. Although it currently processes news articles, it can be easily adapted ...
—With the appearance of massively parallel and inexpensive platforms such as the G80 generation of NVIDIA GPUs, more real-life applications will be designed or ported to these pl...