The shift to multi-core hardware brings new challenges to database systems, as the software parallelism determines performance. Even though database systems traditionally accommod...
Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Radu Stoica, Mano...
Recent research shows that the high occupancy of Coherence Controllers (CCs) is a major performance bottleneck in scalable shared-memory multiprocessors. In this paper, we propose...
BLASTn is a ubiquitous tool used for large scale DNA analysis. Detailed profiling tests reveal that the most computationally intensive sections of the BLASTn algorithm are the sc...
—Sequence alignment is a fundamental instrument in Bioinformatics. In recent years, numerous proposals have been addressing the problem of accelerating this class of applications...
— Operators need routers to provide service guarantees such as guaranteed flow rates and fairness among flows, so as to support real-time traffic and traffic engineering. How...