Mortar: Filling the gaps in data center memory

VEE 2014 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 53-64

  Hwang, Jinho ^a   Uppal, Ahsen ^b   Wood, Timothy ^b   Huang, H Howie ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disk prefetching; Memcached; Memory management; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; VIDEO STREAMING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ACTIVE APPLICATION; DISTRIBUTED CACHE; MEMCACHED; MEMORY MANAGEMENT; PREFETCHING; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS; WEB APPLICATION;

MORTAR;

EID: 84897509290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2576195.2576203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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