In this paper we introduce the idea of organizing systems. Through a number of examples from an ongoing ethnographic study of family life, we suggest that organizing systems come ...
In this paper we analyze the I/O access patterns of a widely-used biological sequence search tool and implement two variations that employ parallel-I/O for data access based on PV...
Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Xiao Qin, David R. Swanson
Multiprocessor operating systems (OSs) pose several unique and conflicting challenges to System Virtual Machines (System VMs). For example, most existing system VMs resort to gan...
Philip M. Wells, Koushik Chakraborty, Gurindar S. ...
In large-scale clusters and computational grids, component failures become norms instead of exceptions. Failure occurrence as well as its impact on system performance and operatio...
Genetic Studies examine relationships between genetic variation and disease development. Pharmacogenetics studies the responses to drugs against genetic variation. These two lines ...