MapReduce offers a flexible programming model for processing and generating large data sets on dedicated resources, where only a small fraction of such resources are every unavaila...
Heshan Lin, Xiaosong Ma, Jeremy S. Archuleta, Wu-c...
Modern operating systems frequently support applications with a variety of timing constraints including hard real-time, soft real-time, and best-effort. To guarantee performance, ...
networking with a layer 2 abstraction provides a powerful model for virtualized wide-area distributed computing resources, including for high performance computing (HPC) on collec...
Lei Xia, Zheng Cui, John R. Lange, Yuan Tang, Pete...
This paper is the first analysis of caching architectures for Question Answering (QA). We introduce the novel concept of multi-layer collaborative caches, where: (a) each resource...
David Dominguez-Sal, Josep-Lluis Larriba-Pey, Miha...
Transactional Memory (TM) provides mechanisms that promise to simplify parallel programming by eliminating the need for locks and their associated problems (deadlock, livelock, pr...
Hassan Chafi, Jared Casper, Brian D. Carlstrom, Au...