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DAC
2008
ACM
16 years 23 days ago
Parallel programming: can we PLEASE get it right this time?
The computer industry has a problem. As Moore's law marches on, we will be exploiting it to double cores, not frequencies. But all those cores ... 2 to 4 today growing to 8, ...
Tim Mattson, Michael Wrinn
WWW
2002
ACM
16 years 13 days ago
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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15 years 12 months ago
Sharing aggregate computation for distributed queries
An emerging challenge in modern distributed querying is to efficiently process multiple continuous aggregation queries simultaneously. Processing each query independently may be i...
Ryan Huebsch, Minos N. Garofalakis, Joseph M. Hell...
ICPP
2009
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Speeding Up Distributed MapReduce Applications Using Hardware Accelerators
—In an attempt to increase the performance/cost ratio, large compute clusters are becoming heterogeneous at multiple levels: from asymmetric processors, to different system archi...
Yolanda Becerra, Vicenç Beltran, David Carr...
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
CrossTalk: scalably interconnecting instant messaging networks
We consider the problem of interconnecting a simple type of social network: Instant Messaging services. Today, users are members of various IM communities such as AOL, Yahoo, and ...
Marti A. Motoyama, George Varghese