Bioinformaticists use the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) to characterize an unknown sequence by comparing it against a database of known sequences, thus detecting evolu...
Re-ranking the search results using PageRank is a well-known technique used in modern search engines. Running an iterative algorithm like PageRank on a large web graph consumes bo...
Parallel performance tuning naturally involves a diagnosis process to locate and explain sources of program inefficiency. Proposed is an approach that exploits parallel computation...
Exegy’s submission for the TREC 2007 million query track consisted of results obtained by running the queries against the raw data, i.e., the data was not indexed. The hardwarea...
The rapid growth of Internet population leads to the shortage of IP addresses. The next generation IP protocol, IPv6, which extends the IP address length from 32 bits to 128 bits,...