Several application and technology trends indicate that it might be both profitable and
feasible to move computation closer to the data that it processes. In this paper, we evaluate …

In this article we discuss the strategic directions and challenges in the management and use
of storage systems—those components of computer systems responsible for the storage and …

Many scientific applications that run on today's multiprocessors, such as weather forecasting
and seismic analysis, are bottlenecked by their file-I/O needs. Even if the multiprocessor is …

(57) ABSTRACT A data processing system having two or more groups of data processors
that have attributes that are optimized for their assigned functions. A first group consists of …

In a preferred embodiment, the present invention is an asym metric data processing system
having two or more groups of processors that have attributes that are optimized for their …

There are two major challenges for a high performance remote sensing database. First, it
must provide low latency retrieval of very large volumes of spatio temporal data. This …

Today's commodity disk drives, the basic unit of storage for computer systems large and
small, are actually small computers, with a processor, memory, and 'network'connection …

High-performance I/O systems depend on prefetching and caching in order to deliver good
performance to applications. These two techniques have generally been considered in …

This paper presents cooperative prefetching and caching---the use of network-wide global
resources (memories, CPUs, and disks) to support prefetching and caching in the presence …

An asymmetric data record processor and method includes host computers and Job
processing units (JPUs) coupled together on a network. Each host computer and JPU forms …