This paper presents a quantification of the timing effects that advanced processor features like data and instruction cache, pipelines, branch prediction units and out-oforder ex...
Present databases, whether on centralized or parallel DBMSs, do not deal well with scalability. We present an architecture for Wintel multicomputers termed AMOS-SDDS, coupling a h...
Yakham Ndiaye, Aly Wane Diene, Witold Litwin, Tore...
Developers of highly configurable performanceintensive software systems often use a type of in-house performance-oriented "regression testing" to ensure that their modif...
Cemal Yilmaz, Arvind S. Krishna, Atif M. Memon, Ad...
Sharing selected data structures among virtual machines of a safe language can improve resource utilization of each participating run-time system. The challenge is to determine wh...
Bernard Wong, Grzegorz Czajkowski, Laurent Dayn&eg...
Abstract-- Shared temporary storage space is often the constraining resource for clusters that serve as execution nodes in wide-area distributed systems. At least one large nationa...