As the speed gap between CPU and I/O is getting wider and wider, I/O latency plays a more important role to the overall system performance than it used to be. Prefetching consecut...
Tsozen Yeh, Joseph Arul, Kuo-Hsin Tien, I-Fan Chen...
Covert channels are used for the secret transfer of information. Encryption only protects communication from being decoded by unauthorised parties, whereas covert channels aim to ...
Sebastian Zander, Grenville J. Armitage, Philip Br...
External sorting--the process of sorting a file that is too large to fit into the computer's internal memory and must be stored externally on disks--is a fundamental subroutin...
level of abstraction, compared with the program representation for scalar optimizations. For example, loop unrolling and loop unrolland-jam transformations exploit the large regist...
Rakesh Krishnaiyer, Dattatraya Kulkarni, Daniel M....
An Operational Information System (OIS) supports a real-time view of an organization’s information critical to its logistical business operations. A central component of an OIS ...