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GECCO
2008
Springer
134views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Branch predictor on-line evolutionary system
In this work a branch prediction system which utilizes evolutionary techniques is introduced. It allows the predictor to adapt to the executed code and thus to improve its perform...
Karel Slany
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
164views Database» more  SIGMOD 2005»
14 years 8 months ago
RankSQL: Query Algebra and Optimization for Relational Top-k Queries
This paper introduces RankSQL, a system that provides a systematic and principled framework to support efficient evaluations of ranking (top-k) queries in relational database syst...
Chengkai Li, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Ihab F. Ilyas...
IEEESCC
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Swift: Fast, Reliable, Loosely Coupled Parallel Computation
A common pattern in scientific computing involves the execution of many tasks that are coupled only in the sense that the output of one may be passed as input to one or more other...
Yong Zhao, Mihael Hategan, Ben Clifford, Ian T. Fo...
DATE
2006
IEEE
114views Hardware» more  DATE 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Compositional, efficient caches for a chip multi-processor
In current multi-media systems major parts of the functionality consist of software tasks executed on a set of concurrently operating processors. Those tasks interfere with each o...
Anca Mariana Molnos, Marc J. M. Heijligers, Sorin ...
USENIX
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Vx32: Lightweight User-level Sandboxing on the x86
Code sandboxing is useful for many purposes, but most sandboxing techniques require kernel modifications, do not completely isolate guest code, or incur substantial performance co...
Bryan Ford, Russ Cox