Most modern DBMS optimizers rely upon a cost model to choose the best query execution plan (QEP) for any given query. Cost estimates are heavily dependent upon the optimizer’s e...
Michael Stillger, Guy M. Lohman, Volker Markl, Mok...
As a novel approach to software maintenance in large clusters of PCs requiring multiple OS installations we implemented partition cloning and partition repositories as well as a s...
Splatting is widely applied in many areas, including volume, point-based, and image-based rendering. Improvements to splatting, such as eliminating popping and color bleeding, occ...
Jian Huang, Roger Crawfis, Naeem Shareef, Klaus Mu...
Available techniques for testing core-based systems-on-a-chip (SOCs) do not provide a systematic means for synthesising low-overhead test architectures and compact test solutions....
Srivaths Ravi, Ganesh Lakshminarayana, Niraj K. Jh...
Hybrid branch predictors combine the predictions of multiple single-level or two-level branch predictors. The prediction-combining hardware -- the "meta-predictor" -may ...
Dirk Grunwald, Donald C. Lindsay, Benjamin G. Zorn