Real-time garbage collection is essential if object-oriented languages (in particular, Java) are to become predictable enough for real-time embedded systems. Although techniques f...
One of the most challenging aspects of managing a very large data warehouse is identifying how queries will behave before they start executing. Yet knowing their performance charac...
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The applicability of network-based computing depends on the availability of the underlying network bandwidth. However, network resources are shared and the available network bandw...
Storage Latency Estimation Descriptors, or SLEDs, are an API that allow applications to understand and take advantage of the dynamic state of a storage system. By accessing data i...
Storage virtualization in modern storage systems allows variability in the number of "physical" disks supporting a single "virtual" disk. In practice, IO workl...
Lin Qiao, Balakrishna R. Iyer, Divyakant Agrawal, ...