The movement to multi-core processors increases the need for simpler, more robust parallel programming models. Atomic sections have been widely recognized for their ease of use. T...
Bill McCloskey, Feng Zhou, David Gay, Eric A. Brew...
Abstract—GPUs have recently been used to accelerate dataparallel applications for they provide easier programmability and increased generality while maintaining the tremendous me...
Ping Yao, Hong An, Mu Xu, Gu Liu, Xiaoqiang Li, Ya...
Pointer bugs associated with dynamically-allocated objects resulting in out-of-bounds memory access are an important class of software bugs. Because such bugs cannot be detected e...
Jin-Yi Wang, Yen-Shiang Shue, T. N. Vijaykumar, Sa...
Conventional programming models were designed to be used by expert programmers for programming for largescale multiprocessors, distributed computational clusters, or specialized p...
Two trends are converging to make the CPU cost of a table scan a more important component of database performance. First, table scans are becoming a larger fraction of the query p...
Allison L. Holloway, Vijayshankar Raman, Garret Sw...