The rise of multi-core processors has shifted performance efforts towards parallel programs. However, single-threaded code, whether from legacy programs or ones difficult to para...
In the recent years, power consumption has become increasingly an important design concern as silicon area and performance in modern computer systems design. Several factors have ...
Optimization of a real world application BLAST is used to demonstrate the limitations of static and profile-guided optimizations and to highlight the potential of runtime optimiz...
Abhinav Das, Jiwei Lu, Howard Chen, Jinpyo Kim, Pe...
As compared to a large spectrum of performance optimizations, relatively little effort has been dedicated to optimize other aspects of embedded applications such as memory space r...
Ozcan Ozturk, Hendra Saputra, Mahmut T. Kandemir, ...
Most modern RDBMS depend on the query processing optimizer’s cost model to choose the best execution plan for a given query. Since the physical IO (PIO) is a costly operation to...