A number of recent technological trends have made data intensive applications such as continuous media (audio and video) servers a reality. These servers store and retrieve a larg...
For a large class of examples arising in statistical physics known as attractive spin systems (e.g., the Ising model), one seeks to sample from a probability distribution π on an...
The ability to detect object size, location and movement is essential for a visual system in either a biological or man made environment. In this paper we present a model for esti...
Scheduling query execution plans is an important component of query optimization in parallel database systems. The problem is particularly complex in a shared-nothing execution en...
The extremely low latencies and high bandwidth results achievable with the Scalable Coherent Interface SCI at lowest level encourages its integration into existing Message Passin...