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ISPA
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Parallelization Strategies for the Points of Interests Algorithm on the Cell Processor
The Cell processor is a typical example of a heterogeneous multiprocessor-on-chip architecture that uses several levels of parallelism to deliver high performance. Closing the gap ...
Tarik Saidani, Lionel Lacassagne, Samir Bouaziz, T...
HPCC
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Optimizing Array Accesses in High Productivity Languages
One of the outcomes of DARPA’s HPCS program has been the creation of three new high productivity languages: Chapel, Fortress, and X10. While these languages have introduced impro...
Mackale Joyner, Zoran Budimlic, Vivek Sarkar
EUROPAR
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
TAUoverSupermon : Low-Overhead Online Parallel Performance Monitoring
Online application performance monitoring allows tracking performance characteristics during execution as opposed to doing so post-mortem. This opens up several possibilities other...
Aroon Nataraj, Matthew J. Sottile, Alan Morris, Al...
DNIS
2007
Springer
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Improving the Performance of Read-Only Transactions Through Speculation
A read-only transaction (ROT) does not modify any data. The main issues regarding processing ROTs are correctness, data currency and performance. Two-phase Locking (2PL) protocol i...
Thirumalaisamy Ragunathan, P. Krishna Reddy
DAMON
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A general framework for improving query processing performance on multi-level memory hierarchies
We propose a general framework for improving the query processing performance on multi-level memory hierarchies. Our motivation is that (1) the memory hierarchy is an important pe...
Bingsheng He, Yinan Li, Qiong Luo, Dongqing Yang
DAMON
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Pipelined hash-join on multithreaded architectures
Multi-core and multithreaded processors present both opportunities and challenges in the design of database query processing algorithms. Previous work has shown the potential for ...
Philip Garcia, Henry F. Korth
CIARP
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Method for Estimating Authentication Performance over Time, with Applications to Face Biometrics
Underlying biometrics are biological tissues that evolve over time. Hence, biometric authentication (and recognition in general) is a dynamic pattern recognition problem. We propos...
Norman Poh, Josef Kittler, Raymond S. Smith, Jose ...
SRDS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluating Byzantine Quorum Systems
Replication is a mechanism extensively used to guarantee the availability and good performance of data storage services. Byzantine Quorum Systems (BQS) have been proposed as a sol...
Wagner Saback Dantas, Alysson Neves Bessani, Joni ...
QEST
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Productivity Centered Tools Framework for Application Performance Tuning
Our productivity centered performance tuning framework for HPC applications comprises of three main components: (1) a versatile source code, performance metrics, and performance d...
Hui-Fang Wen, Simone Sbaraglia, Seetharami Seelam,...
ISPASS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
An Analysis of Performance Interference Effects in Virtual Environments
Virtualization is an essential technology in modern datacenters. Despite advantages such as security isolation, fault isolation, and environment isolation, current virtualization ...
Younggyun Koh, Rob C. Knauerhase, Paul Brett, Mic ...