We investigate how an e-commerce site can be scaled up from a single machine running a Web server and a database to a cluster of Web server machines and database engine machines. In order to reduce development, maintenance, ...

We investigate high-performance threading architectures for I/O intensive multi-threaded servers. We study thread architectures from two angles: (1) number of user threads per kernel thread, and (2) use of synchronous I/O ...

Puppeteer is a system for adapting component-based applications in mobile environments. Puppeteer takes advantage of the component-based nature of the applications to perform adaptation without modifying the applications. ...

As dynamic content has become more prevalent on the Web, a number of standard mechanisms have evolved to generate such dynamic content. We study three specific mechanisms in common use: PHP, Java servlets, and Enterprise ...

The absence of benchmarks for Web sites with dynamic content hasbeen a major impediment to research in this area. We describe three benchmarks for evaluating the performance of Web sites with dynamic content. The benchmarks ...

We investigate the techniques necessary for building highly-available, low-cost, scalable servers, suitable for supporting dynamic content web sites. We focus on replication techniques for scaling and availability of a ...

Page table pointer caches are a hardware supplement for TLBs that cache pointers to pages of page table entries rather than page table entries themselves. A PTPC traps and handles most TLB misses in hardware with low ...

In this paper, we present a new run-time system for strongly-typed programming languages that supports object sharing in a distributed system. The key insight in this system is that type information allows efficient and ...

Recent developments in office productivity suites make it easier for users to publish rich {\em compound documents\/} on the Web. Compound documents appear as a single unit of information but may contain data generated by ...

High Performance Fortran (HPF), as well as its predecessor FortranD,has attracted considerable attention as a promising language for writing portable parallel programs for a wide variety of distributed-memory architectures. ...