Due to the rapid growth in the size of the web, web search engines are facing enormous performance challenges. The larger engines in particular have to be able to process tens of ...
Kernel machines are a popular class of machine learning algorithms that achieve state of the art accuracies on many real-life classification problems. Kernel perceptrons are among...
Data prefetching has been widely used in the past as a technique for hiding memory access latencies. However, data prefetching in multi-threaded applications running on chip multi...
Dhruva Chakrabarti, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Mustafa Ka...
Modern peer-to-peer file sharing systems distribute large files among peers using block partitioning. Blocks can be redistributed by a peer even before the whole file is available...
Christian Ortolf, Christian Schindelhauer, Arne Va...
Measurements of an off-the-shelf DRAM chip confirm that different cells retain information for different amounts of time. This result extends to DRAM rows, or pages (retention tim...