We consider the problem of solving a symmetric, positive definite system of linear equations. The most well-known and widely-used method for solving such systems is the preconditi...
In petabyte-scale distributed file systems that decouple read and write from metadata operations, behavior of the metadata server cluster will be critical to overall system perfo...
Sage A. Weil, Kristal T. Pollack, Scott A. Brandt,...
This report investigates the relationships between design patterns and programming languages. A comparison is carried out between the usual track of programming languages developme...
This paper shows how Social Network Analysis, the sociological domain studying the interaction between people in specific social environments, can be used to assign roles to diff...
Embedded control programs are hard to analyse because their behaviour depends on how they interact with hardware devices. In particular, embedded code typically uses interrupts to...