Say you are looking for information about a particular person. A search engine returns many pages for that person's name but which pages are about the person you care about, ...
Large web search engines have to answer thousands of queries per second with interactive response times. Due to the sizes of the data sets involved, often in the range of multiple...
High-level languages are growing in popularity. However, decades of C software development have produced large libraries of fast, timetested, meritorious code that are impractical...
Tristan Ravitch, Steve Jackson, Eric Aderhold, Ben...
To improve the performance of a single application on Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs), the application must be split into threads which execute concurrently on multiple cores. In mult...
M. Aater Suleman, Onur Mutlu, Moinuddin K. Qureshi...
Due to power wall, memory wall, and ILP wall, we are facing the end of ever increasing single-threaded performance. For this reason, multicore and manycore processors are arising ...