A class of database programs exist which are required to operate over an infinite number of types; included in this class are object browsers and query tools. The types over which...
As the speed gap between CPU and I/O is getting wider and wider, I/O latency plays a more important role to the overall system performance than it used to be. Prefetching consecut...
Tsozen Yeh, Joseph Arul, Kuo-Hsin Tien, I-Fan Chen...
Autonomous mobile programs (AMPs) offer a novel decentralised load management technology where periodic use is made of cost models to decide where to execute in a network. In this...
Instruction-level traces are widely used for program and hardware analysis. However, program traces for just a few seconds of execution are enormous, up to several terabytes in siz...
Distributing data is a fundamental problem in implementing efficient distributed-memory parallel programs. The problem becomes more difficult in environments where the participati...
D. Brent Weatherly, David K. Lowenthal, Mario Naka...