While Sequential Consistency (SC) is the most intuitive memory consistency model and the one most programmers likely assume, current multiprocessors do not support it. Instead, th...
Luis Ceze, James Tuck, Pablo Montesinos, Josep Tor...
In main-memory databases, the number of processor cache misses has a critical impact on the performance of the system. Cacheconscious indices are designed to improve performance b...
This paper extends previous work on document retrieval and document type classification, addressing the problem of ‘typed search’. Specifically, given a query and a designated ...
Jun Xu, Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, Nick Craswell, Yalou H...
— Verification remains an integral and crucial phase of today’s microprocessor design and manufacturing process. Unfortunately, with soaring design complexities and decreasing...
Heterogeneous multi-core processors, such as the IBM Cell processor, can deliver high performance. However, these processors are notoriously difficult to program: different cores...