—Modern compression standards such as H.264, DivX, or VC-1 provide astonishing quality at the costs of steadily increasing processing requirements. Therefore, efficient solution...
We present a unified approach to locality optimization that employs both data and control transformations. Data transformations include changing the array layout in memory. Contr...
OpenMP has emerged as a widely accepted standard for writing shared memory programs. Hardware-specific extensions such as data placement are usually needed to improve the scalabi...
Application performance tuning is a complex process that requires assembling various types of information and correlating it with source code to pinpoint the causes of performance...
John M. Mellor-Crummey, Robert J. Fowler, David B....
Partial replication is one type of optimization to speed up execution of queries submitted to large datasets. In partial replication, a portion of the dataset is extracted, re-org...