Measuring and reporting performance of parallel computers constitutes the basis for
scientific advancement of high-performance computing (HPC). Most scientific reports show …

The current virtualization solution in the Cloud widely relies on hypervisor-based
technologies. Along with the recent popularity of Docker, the container-based virtualization …

Does the advent of flash devices constitute a radical change for secondary storage? How
should database systems adapt to this new form of secondary storage? Before we can …

Software evolves to fix bugs and add features. Stopping and restarting programs to apply
changes is inconvenient and often costly. Dynamic software updating (DSU) addresses this …

Microbenchmarking frameworks, such as Java's Microbenchmark Harness (JMH), allow
developers to write fine-grained performance test suites at the method or statement level …

Emerging Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technologies offer high capacity and energy
efficiency compared to DRAM, but suffer from limited write endurance and longer latencies …

In many fields of research and business data sizes are breaking the petabyte barrier. This
imposes new problems and research possibilities for the database community. Usually, data …

Given an increasing number of Cloud services available in the market, evaluating candidate
Cloud services is crucial and beneficial for both service customers (eg cost benefit analysis) …

This paper reports and analyzes measured chip power and performance on five process
technology generations executing 61 diverse benchmarks with a rigorous methodology. We …

Computer systems research spans sub-disciplines that include embedded and real-time
systems, compilers, networking, and operating systems. Our contention is that a number of …