Due to the ever increasing system complexity, deciding whether a given platform is sufficient to implement a set of applications under given constraints becomes a serious bottlene...
The performance of a database system depends strongly on the layout of database objects, such as indexes or tables, onto the underlying storage devices. A good layout will both ba...
—Multiple processors or multi-core CPUs are now in common, and the number of processes running concurrently is increasing in a cluster. Each process issues contiguous I/O request...
Due to the advent of multi-core processors and the consequent need for better concurrent programming abstractions, new synchronization paradigms have emerged. A promising one, kno...
Felipe Goldstein, Alexandro Baldassin, Paulo Cento...
Abstract—Since the advent of multi-core processors, the physionomy of typical clusters has dramatically evolved. This new massively multi-core era is a major change in architectu...