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PLDI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Safe optimisations for shared-memory concurrent programs
Current proposals for concurrent shared-memory languages, including C++ and C, provide sequential consistency only for programs without data races (the DRF guarantee). While the i...
Jaroslav Sevcík
PVLDB
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Tree Indexing on Solid State Drives
Large flash disks, or solid state drives (SSDs), have become an attractive alternative to magnetic hard disks, due to their high random read performance, low energy consumption a...
Yinan Li, Bingsheng He, Jun Yang 0001, Qiong Luo, ...
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
207views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
14 years 1 months ago
Automatic contention detection and amelioration for data-intensive operations
To take full advantage of the parallelism offered by a multicore machine, one must write parallel code. Writing parallel code is difficult. Even when one writes correct code, the...
John Cieslewicz, Kenneth A. Ross, Kyoho Satsumi, Y...
JCDL
2006
ACM
147views Education» more  JCDL 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
The social life of books in the humane library
The development of public libraries may have inadvertently brought the age of marginalia to a close but the advent of digital libraries could revive the practice of marginal annot...
Yoram Chisik, Nancy Kaplan
ICALT
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Multisensory Games for Dyslexic Children
A significant problem faced by dyslexic children is a lack of learning technologies designed to help children learn in settings when there is no personal teaching assistance. This...
James Ohene-Djan, Rahima Begum