—Various studies have pointed out the debilitating effects of OS Jitter on the performance of parallel applications on large clusters such as the ASCI Purple and the Mare Nostrum...
Energy-efficient computing is important in several systems ranging from embedded devices to large scale data centers. Several application domains offer the opportunity to tradeof...
Ever since the `early days' of database management systems, clustering has proven to be one of the most effective performance enhancement techniques for object oriented datab...
Abstract. We present a framework that assesses relevance with respect to several relevance criteria, by combining the query-dependent and query-independent evidence indicating thes...
The ability to monitor a database server is crucial for effective database administration. Today's commercial database systems support two basic mechanisms for monitoring: (a...