Reliable storage systems depend in part on “write-before” relationships where some changes to stable storage are delayed until other changes commit. A journaled file system, ...
Christopher Frost, Mike Mammarella, Eddie Kohler, ...
A nonce is a cryptographic input value which must never repeat within a given context. Nonces are important for the security of many cryptographic building blocks, such as stream c...
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are being employed in high performance computing systems owing to their potential to accelerate a wide variety of long-running routines. Par...
Uday Bondhugula, Ananth Devulapalli, James Dinan, ...
A large number of user requests execute (often concurrently) within a server system. A single request may exhibit fluctuating hardware characteristics (such as instruction comple...
In this paper, we discuss several facets of optimization in cloud computing, the corresponding challenges and propose an architecture for addressing those challenges. We consider ...
Marin Litoiu, C. Murray Woodside, Johnny Wong, Joa...