This paper describes a novel approach to providingmodular and extensible operating system functionality and encapsulated environments based on a synthesis of microkernel and virtu...
Bryan Ford, Mike Hibler, Jay Lepreau, Patrick Tull...
To achieve superior performance levels when working with heterogeneous distributed platforms, processscheduling decisions must be based essentially on the platform’s features an...
Kalinka Regina Lucas Jaquie Castelo Branco, Edward...
Storage systems in emerging large-scale (a.k.a. peta-scale) computing systems often introduce a performance or scalability bottleneck. To deal with these limitations we propose a ...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Matei Ripean...
With the wide adoption of XML as a standard data representation and exchange format, querying XML documents becomes increasingly important. However, relational database systems co...
Many parallel applications exhibit unpredictable communication between threads, leading to contention for shared objects. The choice of contention management strategy impacts stro...
Ryan Johnson, Radu Stoica, Anastasia Ailamaki, Tod...