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CCGRID
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Natively Supporting True One-Sided Communication in
As high-end computing systems continue to grow in scale, the performance that applications can achieve on such large scale systems depends heavily on their ability to avoid explic...
Gopalakrishnan Santhanaraman, Pavan Balaji, K. Gop...
VLDB
2005
ACM
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15 years 8 months ago
Improving Database Performance on Simultaneous Multithreading Processors
Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) allows multiple threads to supply instructions to the instruction pipeline of a superscalar processor. Because threads share processor resources,...
Jingren Zhou, John Cieslewicz, Kenneth A. Ross, Mi...
OSDI
2008
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
On the Impact of Disk Scrubbing on Energy Savings
The increasing use of computers for saving valuable data imposes stringent reliability constraints on storage systems. Reliability improvement via use of redundancy is a common pr...
Guanying Wang, Ali Raza Butt, Chris Gniady
ASPLOS
1987
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Machine-Independent Virtual Memory Management for Paged Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor Architectures
This paper describes the design and implementation of virtual memory management within the CMU Mach Operating System and the experiences gained by the Mach kernel group in porting...
Richard F. Rashid, Avadis Tevanian, Michael Young,...
FAST
2008
15 years 5 months ago
Pergamum: Replacing Tape with Energy Efficient, Reliable, Disk-Based Archival Storage
As the world moves to digital storage for archival purposes, there is an increasing demand for reliable, lowpower, cost-effective, easy-to-maintain storage that can still provide ...
Mark W. Storer, Kevin M. Greenan, Ethan L. Miller,...