Selected Papers Having Made Impact on Technical Advancement in
Computer Systems
Practical benefits in the real world often result from
basic research
at a fundamental level.
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``A
permutation-based page interleaving scheme to reduce
row-buffer conflicts and exploit data locality", Proceedings of
the 33rd Annual International Symposium
on Microarchitecture, (Micro-33), Monterey, California,
December 10-13, 2000. pp. 32-41. 2020 ACM Micro Test of Time Award
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``LIRS: an efficient low inter-reference recency set replacement to improve
buffer cache performance",
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and
Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS'02),
Marina Del Rey, California, June 15-19, 2002.
An
extended version has been published in IEEE Transactions on
Computers, Vol. 54, No. 8, 2005.
- The LIRS algorithm has been adopted in
major database and software systems
(see
detailed documents).
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``Token-ordered
LRU: an effective page replacement policy and its implementation in
Linux systems", Performance Evaluation, Vol. 60, Issue 1-4,
2005, pp. 5-29.
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``CLOCK-Pro:
an effective improvement of the CLOCK replacement", Proceedings
of 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX'05), Anaheim,
CA, April 10-15, 2005, pp. 323-336.
- Clock-pro has been adopted by in OS kernels and
other data processing systems
(see
detailed documents).
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``Gaining insights into multicore cache partitioning:
bridging the gap
between simulation and real systems",
Proceedings
of the 14th International Symposium on High Performance Computer
Architecture
(HPCA'08), Salt Lake City, Utah, February 16-20, 2008.
- The OS-based cache partitioning method in this paper has been used in
Linux kernel for production systems
(see
detailed documents).
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``RCFile: a fast and space-efficient data placement structure in
MapReduce-based warehouse systems",
Proceedings of International Conference on Data Engineering
(ICDE'11),
Hannova, Germany, April 11-16, 2011.
- RCfile has been become a standard data format
for both conventional databases and for big data warehouse
systems
(see
detailed documents).
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``Hystor: making the best usage of Solid State Drives in high performance
storage systems",
Proceedings of 25th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing
(ICS 2011),
Tucson, Arizona, May 31- June 4, 2011.
Best Paper Award
- Hystor has made impact on commercial hybrid storage
products, including Apple's Fusion Drive
(see
detailed documents).
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``YSmart: Yet another SQL-to-MapReduce Translator",
Proceedings of 31st International Conference on Distributed Computing
Systems (ICDCS 2011), Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 20-24, 2011.
Best Paper Award
.
- YSmart has been merged into big data processing production systems
(see
detailed documents).
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``Accerating Pathology Image Data Cross-Comparison on CPU-GPU Hybrid Systems",
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol. 5, No. 11, 2012 ( VLDB 2012 ).
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``Hadoop-GIS: A High Performance Spatial Data Warehousing System over MapReduce",
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol. 6, No. 11, 2013
(VLDB 2013). 2024 VLDB Endowment Test of Time Award
- The Hadoop-GIS project has initiated the development of a new spatial data analytical ecosystem
(see
detailed documents).