Networking and telecommunication OEMs are at the forefront of design complexity. A network element can contain hundreds of thousands or even millions of source lines and employ hundreds of software ...

Part 1 of this series outlines the CPU time-allocation problem, some constraints, and a hands-free phone simulation model, for which the code is developed in this installment. The listing below ...

Just to wrap up this week’s discussion on VLDBs we need to look at the new features of SQL Server 2008 as it improves the Data Partitioning features introduced in 2005. Let’s take a look. First of all ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...