One model of multithreading gaining popularity on multiprocessor systems is the message-driven model of computation. The message-driven model is a reactive model in which an arriv...
This paper describes the design and implementation of the virtual memory-mapped communicationmodel (VMMC) on a Myrinet network of PCI-based PCs. VMMC has been designed and impleme...
Active systems are emerging in many fields, being particularly interesting those like Active Database Management Systems which always provide some kind of reactive capabilities. I...
In a database system, read operations are much more common than write operations, and consequently, database systems have been read optimized. As the size of main memory increases...
Aggregation in traditional database systems is performed in batch mode: a query is submitted, the system processes a large volume of data over a long period of time, and, eventual...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Peter J. Haas, Helen J. Wan...