Abstract Performance isolation is a key challenge in cloud computing. Unfortunately, Linux has few defenses against performance interference in shared resources such as processor caches and memory buses, so applications in a cloud can experience unpredictable performance caused by other programs’ behavior. Our solution, CPI2, uses cycles-per-instruction (CPI) data obtained …
Haystack was the primary storage storage system designed initially for Facebook’s Photos application. Its been around for almost 7 years now. Through …
ABSTRACT Mesa is a highly scalable analytic data warehousing system that stores critical measurement data related to Google’s Internet advertising business. Mesa …
Abstract The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated …
Abstract Cluster computing applications – frameworks like MapReduce and user-facing applications like search platforms have application-level requirements and higher-level abstractions to express …
Abstract HP’s StoreAll with Express Query is a scalable commercial file archiving product that offers sophisticated file metadata management and search capabilities. …
A key feature of all distributed storage systems is their ability to replicate data not just across machines within a data center …
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Abstract This paper presents Polybase, a feature of SQL Server PDW V2 that allows users to manage and query data stored in …
With both the F1 and Spanner papers out its now possible to understand their interplay a bit holistically. So lets start by …