This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
Recently, the number of cores on general-purpose processors has been increasing rapidly. Using conventional programming models, it is challenging to effectively exploit these core...
Jayanth Gummaraju, Joel Coburn, Yoshio Turner, Men...
Many-task computing aims to bridge the gap between two computing paradigms, high throughput computing and high performance computing. Many-task computing denotes highperformance co...
Ioan Raicu, Ian T. Foster, Mike Wilde, Zhao Zhang,...
This paper presents PARADISE PARAdigm for DIalogue System Evaluation, a general framework for evaluating and comparing the performance of spoken dialogue agents. The framework d...
Marilyn A. Walker, Diane J. Litman, Candace A. Kam...
Suppose one is considering purchase of a computer equipped with accelerators. Or suppose one has access to such a computer and is considering porting code to take advantage of the...
Laura Carrington, Mustafa M. Tikir, Catherine Olsc...