Modern computer systems have been built around the assumption that persistent storage is accessed via a slow, block-based interface. However, new byte-addressable, persistent memo...
Jeremy Condit, Edmund B. Nightingale, Christopher ...
Search engines represent a key component of Web economy these days. Despite that, there is not much technical literature available on their design, fine tuning, and internal oper...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ramurti A. Barbosa, Paulo B...
The database tier of dynamic content servers at large Internet sites is typically hosted on centralized and expensive hardware. Recently, research prototypes have proposed using d...
Designers of concurrent programs are faced with many choices of synchronization mechanisms, among which clear functional trade-offs exist. Making synchronization customizable is h...
In this article we present the design choices and the evaluation of a batch scheduler for large clusters, named OAR. This batch scheduler is based upon an original design that emp...
Nicolas Capit, Georges Da Costa, Yiannis Georgiou,...