We describe the design and implementation of FFE/x86 (File-Format Extractor for x86), an analysis tool that works on stripped executables (i.e., neither source code nor debugging ...
Web application workloads are often characterized by a large number of unique read requests and a significant fraction of write requests. Hosting these applications drives the ne...
Scientific, symbolic, and multimedia applications present diverse computing workloads with different types of inherent parallelism. Tomorrow’s processors will employ varying com...
Linda M. Wills, Tarek M. Taha, Lewis B. Baumstark ...
Instruction fetch bandwidth is feared to be a major limiting factor to the performance of future wide-issue aggressive superscalars. In this paper, we focus on Database applicatio...
Interframe compression techniques, such as those used in MPEG video, give rise to a coded bit stream where picture sizes di er by a factor of 10 or more. As a result, bu ering is ...