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The Asilomar Report on Database Research
Phil Bernstein, Michael Brodie, Stefano Ceri +13
The database research community is rightly proud of success in basic research, and its remarkable record of technology transfer. Now the field needs to radically broaden its resear…
The Revolution Yet to Happen
C. Gordon Bell, Jim Gray
All information about physical objects including humans, buildings, processes, and organizations will be online. This trend is both desirable and inevitable. Cyberspace will provid…
Locally Served Network Computers
Jim Gray
NCs are the natural evolution of PCs, ubiquitous computers everywhere. The current vision of NCs requires two improbable developments: (1) inexpensive high-bandwidth WAN links to t…
The Design and Architecture of the Microsoft Cluster Service -- A Practical Approach to High-Availability and Scalability
Werner Vogels, Dan Dumitriu, Ken Birman +5
Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) extends the Win-dows NT operating system to support high-availability services. The goal is to offer an execution environment where off-the-shelf s…
The Five-Minute Rule Ten Years Later, and Other Computer Storage Rules of Thumb
Jim Gray, Goetz Graefe
Simple economic and performance arguments suggest appropriate lifetimes for main memory pages and suggest optimal page sizes. The fundamental tradeoffs are the prices and bandwidth…
Performance / Price Sort
Jim Gray, Joshua Coates, Chris Nyberg
NTsort is an external sort on WindowsNT 5.0. It has minimal functionality but excellent price performance. In particular, running on mail-order hardware it can sort 1.5 GB for a pe…