Testingthe performance scalabilityof parallelprograms can be a time consuming task, involving many performance runs for different computer configurations, processor numbers, and p...
Allen D. Malony, Vassilis Mertsiotakis, Andreas Qu...
A new type of optimization, called predicate move-around, ia introduced. It is shown how this optimization `considerably improvea the efficiency of evaluating SQL queries that hav...
Alon Y. Levy, Inderpal Singh Mumick, Yehoshua Sagi...
Abstract-- Multicore microprocessors have been largely motivated by the diminishing returns in performance and the increased power consumption of single-threaded ILP microprocessor...
Matthew Curtis-Maury, Karan Singh, Sally A. McKee,...
Grid applications often need to distribute large amounts of data efficiently from one cluster to multiple others (multicast). Existing methods usually arrange nodes in optimized t...
Many metaheuristics have difficulty exploring their search space comprehensively. Exploration time and efficiency are highly dependent on the size and the ruggedness of the search...