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SIGOPS
2010
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14 years 10 months ago
Cloud-TM: harnessing the cloud with distributed transactional memories
One of the main challenges to harness the potential of Cloud computing is the design of programming models that simplify the development of large-scale parallel applications and t...
Paolo Romano, Luís Rodrigues, Nuno Carvalho...
DEXA
2009
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
Evaluating Non-In-Place Update Techniques for Flash-Based Transaction Processing Systems
Recently, flash memory is emerging as the storage device. With price sliding fast, the cost per capacity is approaching to that of SATA disk drives. So far flash memory has been ...
Yongkun Wang, Kazuo Goda, Masaru Kitsuregawa
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 10 days ago
From x-rays to silly putty via Uranus: serendipity and its role in web search
The act of encountering information unexpectedly has long been identified as valuable, both as a joy in itself and as part of task-focused problem solving. There has been a concer...
Jaime Teevan, Paul André, Susan T. Dumais
IPPS
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Scalable Distributed Execution Environment for Large Data Visualization
To use heterogeneous and geographically distributed resources as a platform for parallel visualization is an intriguing topic of research. This is because of the immense potential...
Micah Beck, Huadong Liu, Jian Huang, Terry Moore
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HPDC
2010
IEEE
15 years 26 days ago
Early observations on the performance of Windows Azure
A significant open issue in cloud computing is performance. Few, if any, cloud providers or technologies offer quantitative performance guarantees. Regardless of the potential adv...
Zach Hill, Jie Li, Ming Mao, Arkaitz Ruiz-Alvarez,...