Multimedia interfaces increase the need for large image databases, capable of storing and reading streams of data with strict synchronicity and isochronicity requirements. In orde...
Benoit A. Gennart, Vincent Messerli, Roger D. Hers...
—Memory bandwidth has always been a critical factor for the performance of many data intensive applications. The increasing processor performance, and the advert of single chip m...
Felipe Cabarcas, Alejandro Rico, Yoav Etsion, Alex...
Software-controlled data prefetching is a promising technique for improving the performance of the memory subsystem to match today's high-performance processors. While prefet...
As symmetric multiprocessors become commonplace, the interconnection networks and the communication system software in clusters of multiprocessors become critical to achieving high...
Ying Qian, Ahmad Afsahi, Nathan R. Fredrickson, Re...
Achieving high performance for concurrent applications on modern multiprocessors remains challenging. Many programmers avoid locking to improve performance, while others replace l...
Thomas E. Hart, Paul E. McKenney, Angela Demke Bro...