This paper introduces OAI static repository technology as a method by which publishers can expose their articlelevel metadata and thereby participate more fully in the wider infor...
Informed prefetching provides a simple mechanism for I/O-intensive, cache-ineffective applications to efficiently exploit highly-parallel I/O subsystems such as disk arrays. This ...
Achieving high performance on today’s architectures requires careful orchestration of many optimization parameters. In particular, the presence of shared-caches on multicore arch...
Multicore hardware is making concurrent programs pervasive. Unfortunately, concurrent programs are prone to bugs. Among different types of concurrency bugs, atomicity violation bu...
This article discusses the tools that Ada offers to deal with dynamic memory problems. The article shows how the storage pools mechanism of Ada 95 can be extended to enpower devel...
Emmanuel Briot, Franco Gasperoni, Robert Dewar, Di...