While general-purpose homogeneous multi-core architectures are becoming ubiquitous, there are clear indications that, for a number of important applications, a better performance/p...
— This paper describes WOW, a distributed system that combines virtual machine, overlay networking and peerto-peer techniques to create scalable wide-area networks of virtual wor...
Arijit Ganguly, Abhishek Agrawal, P. Oscar Boykin,...
Prefetching and caching are eective techniques for improving the performance of le systems, but they have not been studied in an integrated fashion. This paper proposes four pro...
The role of the operating system (OS) in managing shared resources such as CPU time, memory, peripherals, and even energy is well motivated and understood [23]. Unfortunately, one...
String searching is at the core of many security and network applications like search engines, intrusion detection systems, virus scanners and spam filters. The growing size of o...