Historical linguistics aims at inferring the most likely language phylogenetic tree starting from information concerning the evolutionary relatedness of languages. The available i...
Increasing focus on multimedia applications has prompted the addition of multimedia extensions to most existing general purpose microprocessors. This added functionality comes pri...
The Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) model is designed to leverage the ease of programming of the shared memory paradigm, while enabling the highperformance by expressing locality ...
Interprocessor synchronization, while extremely important for ensuring execution correctness, can be very costly in terms of both power and performance overheads. Unfortunately, m...
Short vector (SIMD) instructions are useful in signal processing, multimedia, and scientific applications. They offer higher performance, lower energy consumption, and better res...