Modern processors use branch target buffers (BTBs) to predict the target address of branches such that they can fetch ahead in the instruction stream increasing concurrency and pe...
Work stealing is a popular method of scheduling fine-grained parallel tasks. The performance of work stealing has been extensively studied, both theoretically and empirically, but...
Daniel Spoonhower, Guy E. Blelloch, Phillip B. Gib...
XML database functionality has been emerging in "XML-only" databases as well as in the major relational database products. Yet, there is no industry standard XML databas...
This paper presents a semantic space profiler for parallel functional programs. Building on previous work in sequential profiling, our tools help programmers to relate runtime res...
Daniel Spoonhower, Guy E. Blelloch, Robert Harper,...
We present a memory-aware load balancing (MALB) technique to dispatch transactions to replicas in a replicated database. Our MALB algorithm exploits knowledge of the working sets ...
Sameh Elnikety, Steven G. Dropsho, Willy Zwaenepoe...