Asymmetric multicore processors (AMP) consist of cores exposing the same instruction-set architecture (ISA) but varying in size, frequency, power consumption and performance. AMPs...
Disk drives are now available with capacities on the order of hundreds of gigabytes. What has not become available is an easy way to manage storage. With installed machines locate...
Continuous memory leaks severely hurt program performance and software availability for garbage-collected programs. This paper presents a safe method, called LeakSurvivor, to tole...
With the increasing storage capacity of personal computing devices, the problems of information overload and information fragmentation become apparent on users’ desktops. For the...
Construction activities take place in what can be called a dynamic virtual organization (VO). VOs require a secure, reliable, scalable information infrastructure that allows colla...