From the point of view of an operating system, a computer is managed and optimized in terms of the application programming model and the management of system resources. For the TF...
The Workflow Management System AltaVista Works has been extended to be able to process workflows in a distributed, partly even parallel manner. Build-time data are replicated over...
Vertical partitioning is a well-known technique for optimizing query performance in relational databases. An extreme form of this technique, which we call vectorization, is to sto...
Peter Buneman, Byron Choi, Wenfei Fan, Robert Hutc...
Large XML data files, or XML databases, are now a common way to distribute scientific and bibliographic data, and storing such data efficiently is an important concern. A number o...
Abstract. Dynamic data redistribution enhances data locality and improves algorithm performance for numerous scientific problems on distributed memory multi-computers systems. Prev...