With the falling price of the memory, an increasing number of multimedia servers and proxies are now equipped with a large memory space. Caching media objects in the memory of a p...
Recent high-performance processors employ sophisticated techniques to overlap and simultaneously execute multiple computation and memory operations. Intuitively, these techniques ...
Anastassia Ailamaki, David J. DeWitt, Mark D. Hill...
Speculative prefetching has been proposed to improve the response time of network access. Previous studies in speculative prefetching focus on building and evaluating access models...
Nor Jaidi Tuah, Mohan Kumar, Svetha Venkatesh, Saj...
- Mobile agents have the ability to migrate through heterogeneous networks and execute at remote hosts. This ability can be exploited to improve the performance of agent based appl...
—The contribution of memory latency to execution time continues to increase, and latency hiding mechanisms become ever more important for efficient processor design. While high-...