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CF
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The potential of the cell processor for scientific computing
The slowing pace of commodity microprocessor performance improvements combined with ever-increasing chip power demands has become of utmost concern to computational scientists. As...
Samuel Williams, John Shalf, Leonid Oliker, Shoaib...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Query processing techniques for solid state drives
Solid state drives perform random reads more than 100x faster than traditional magnetic hard disks, while offering comparable sequential read and write bandwidth. Because of their...
Dimitris Tsirogiannis, Stavros Harizopoulos, Mehul...
CF
2005
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A case for a working-set-based memory hierarchy
Modern microprocessor designs continue to obtain impressive performance gains through increasing clock rates and advances in the parallelism obtained via micro-architecture design...
Steve Carr, Soner Önder
USS
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router
We present Tor, a circuit-based low-latency anonymous communication service. This second-generation Onion Routing system addresses limitations in the original design by adding per...
Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, Paul F. Syverson
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
xCalls: safe I/O in memory transactions
Memory transactions, similar to database transactions, allow a programmer to focus on the logic of their program and let the system ensure that transactions are atomic and isolate...
Haris Volos, Andres Jaan Tack, Neelam Goyal, Micha...