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SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
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16 years 27 days ago
Understanding intrinsic characteristics and system implications of flash memory based solid state drives
Flash Memory based Solid State Drive (SSD) has been called a “pivotal technology” that could revolutionize data storage systems. Since SSD shares a common interface with the t...
Feng Chen, David A. Koufaty, Xiaodong Zhang
SOUPS
2009
ACM
16 years 27 days ago
Revealing hidden context: improving mental models of personal firewall users
The Windows Vista personal firewall provides its diverse users with a basic interface that hides many operational details. However, concealing the impact of network context on th...
Fahimeh Raja, Kirstie Hawkey, Konstantin Beznosov
UIST
2009
ACM
16 years 27 days ago
EverybodyLovesSketch: 3D sketching for a broader audience
We present EverybodyLovesSketch, a gesture-based 3D curve sketching system for rapid ideation and visualization of 3D forms, aimed at a broad audience. We first analyze traditiona...
Seok-Hyung Bae, Ravin Balakrishnan, Karan Singh
CGO
2008
IEEE
16 years 26 days ago
Parallel-stage decoupled software pipelining
In recent years, the microprocessor industry has embraced chip multiprocessors (CMPs), also known as multi-core architectures, as the dominant design paradigm. For existing and ne...
Easwaran Raman, Guilherme Ottoni, Arun Raman, Matt...
DSN
2008
IEEE
16 years 25 days ago
Probabilistic quorum systems in wireless ad hoc networks
Quorums are a basic construct in solving many fundamental distributed computing problems. One of the known ways of making quorums scalable and efficient is by weakening their int...
Roy Friedman, Gabriel Kliot, Chen Avin