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ASAP
2005
IEEE
182views Hardware» more  ASAP 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
A Thread and Data-Parallel MPEG-4 Video Encoder for a System-On-Chip Multiprocessor
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...
Tom R. Jacobs, José L. Núñez-...
ICDCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
An Empirical Study of Collusion Behavior in the Maze P2P File-Sharing System
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...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Improving Disk Throughput in Data-Intensive Servers
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...
Enrique V. Carrera, Ricardo Bianchini
HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
A Scalable, Non-blocking Approach to Transactional Memory
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...
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Using Leases to Support Server-Driven Consistency in Large-Scale Systems
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...