Dual-core processors (and, to an extent, multicore processors) have been adopted in recent years to provide platforms that satisfy the performance requirements of popular multimed...
Background: There is an increasing demand to assemble and align large-scale biological sequence data sets. The commonly used multiple sequence alignment programs are still limited...
Energy efficiency and power capping remain growing concerns in server systems. Online applications continue to evolve with new features and dynamic clientdirected processing, res...
Kai Shen, Arrvindh Shriraman, Sandhya Dwarkadas, X...
We present a case study parallelizing streaming aggregation on three different parallel hardware architectures. Aggregation is a performance-critical operation for data summarizat...
Scott Schneider, Henrique Andrade, Bugra Gedik, Ku...
A component revolution is underway, bringing developers improved productivity and opportunities for code reuse. However, whereas existing tools work well for builders of desktop ap...
Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, Danny Dolev, Jong...