The COMFORT automatic tuning project

G Weikum, C Hasse, A Mönkeberg, P Zabback - Information systems, 1994 - Elsevier
This paper reports on results and experiences from the COMFORT automatic tuning project.
The objective of the project has been to investigate architectural principles of self-tuning …

pMapper: power and migration cost aware application placement in virtualized systems

A Verma, P Ahuja, A Neogi - … on distributed systems platforms and open …, 2008 - Springer
Workload placement on servers has been traditionally driven by mainly performance
objectives. In this work, we investigate the design, implementation, and evaluation of a …

Skew-aware automatic database partitioning in shared-nothing, parallel OLTP systems

A Pavlo, C Curino, S Zdonik - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGMOD …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of
parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) …

Implementing storage adapter performance optimization with chained hardware operations minimizing hardware/firmware interactions

BE Bakke, BL Bowles, MJ Carnevale… - US Patent …, 2013 - Google Patents
PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION WITH CHAINED HARDWARE OPERATIONS US PATENT
DOCUMENTS MINIMIZINGHARDWAREAFIRMWARE 6,324,599 B1 1 1/2001 Zhou et al …

When do redundant requests reduce latency?

NB Shah, K Lee, K Ramchandran - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many systems possess the flexibility to serve requests in more than one way, such as
distributed storage systems that store multiple copies of the data. In such systems, the …

System and method for storage takeover

SM Coatney, K Patel, SH Strange… - US Patent …, 2009 - Google Patents
A takeover system and method for high availability in the face of component failures for a
multiple-node storage system cluster is provided. When a takeover is triggered either …

System and method for raid management, reallocation, and restriping

MJ Klemm, MJ Uttormark - US Patent 7,886,111, 2011 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT Related US Application Data The present disclosure relates to systems and
methods for (60) goal application No. 60/808.045, filed on May RAID Restriping. One …

Maximizing persistent memory bandwidth utilization for OLAP workloads

B Daase, LJ Bollmeier, L Benson, T Rabl - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Modern database systems for online analytical processing (OLAP) typically rely on in-
memory processing. Keeping all active data in DRAM severely limits the data capacity and …

Hippodrome: running circles around storage administration

E Anderson, M Hobbs, K Keeton, S Spence… - Conference on File and …, 2002 - usenix.org
Storage system configuration, even at the enterprise scale, is traditionally undertaken by
human experts using a time-consuming process of trial and error, guided by simple rules of …

Self-tuning database technology and information services: from wishful thinking to viable engineering

G Weikum, A Moenkeberg, C Hasse… - VLDB'02: Proceedings of …, 2002 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary The COMFORT project was started in 1990, and it was then expected
that automatic tuning could be achieved with a few simple principles. While the feedback …