Emerging fast, non-volatile memories (e.g., phase change memories, spin-torque MRAMs, and the memristor) reduce storage access latencies by an order of magnitude compared to state...
Adrian M. Caulfield, Todor I. Mollov, Louis Alex E...
Scalability of parallel architectures is an interesting area of current research. Shared memory parallel programming is attractive stemming from its relative ease in transitioning...
Umakishore Ramachandran, Gautam Shah, Ravi Kumar, ...
Drawing inspiration from several previous projects, we present an ownership-record-free software transactional memory (STM) system that combines extremely low overhead with unusua...
Luke Dalessandro, Michael F. Spear, Michael L. Sco...
This paper presents the design of a read-optimized relational DBMS that contrasts sharply with most current systems, which are write-optimized. Among the many differences in its d...
Michael Stonebraker, Daniel J. Abadi, Adam Batkin,...
Image-based electronic editions enable researchers to view and study in an electronic environment historical manuscript images intricately linked to edition, transcript, glossary a...
Alex Dekhtyar, Ionut Emil Iacob, Jerzy W. Jaromczy...