Modern processors used in embedded systems are becoming increasingly powerful, having features like caches and pipelines to speedup execution. While execution speed of embedded so...
Modern FPGAs, such as the Xilinx Virtex-II Series, offer the feature of partial and dynamic reconfiguration, allowing to load various hardware configurations (i.e., HW modules) du...
—As parallel file systems span larger and larger numbers of nodes in order to provide the performance and scalability necessary for modern cluster applications, the need for fau...
Efficient access to distributed and dynamic multidimensional data is vital for applications in large, heterogeneous, decentralised, resource-sharing environments such as Grids an...
Information retrieval emerged as independent research area from traditional database management system more than a decade ago. This was driven by the increasing functional require...