We studied the dynamic instruction count reduction for a single-thread, vectorized and a multi-threaded, non-vectorized, MPEG-4 video encoder. Results indicate a maximum improveme...
Peer-to-peer networks often use incentive policies to encourage cooperation between nodes. Such systems are generally susceptible to collusion by groups of users in order to gain ...
Qiao Lian, Zheng Zhang, Mao Yang, Ben Y. Zhao, Yaf...
Low disk throughput is one of the main impediments to improving the performance of data-intensive servers. In this paper, we propose two management techniques for the disk control...
Transactional Memory (TM) provides mechanisms that promise to simplify parallel programming by eliminating the need for locks and their associated problems (deadlock, livelock, pr...
Hassan Chafi, Jared Casper, Brian D. Carlstrom, Au...
This paper introduces volume leases as a mechanism for providing cache consistency for large-scale, geographically distributed networks. Volume leases are a variation of leases, w...
Jian Yin, Lorenzo Alvisi, Michael Dahlin, Calvin L...