The general purpose processor has long been the focus of intense optimization efforts that have resulted in an impressive doubling of performance every 18 months. However, recent ...
Christopher T. Weaver, Rajeev Krishna, Lisa Wu, To...
The email volume per mailbox has largely remained low and unchanged in the past several decades, and hence mail server performance has largely remained a secondary issue. The stee...
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Internet-based virtual environments (VEs) let users explore multiple virtual worlds with many different geometric models which are downloaded rather than predistributed. To avoid ...
Emerging non-volatile memory technologies such as phase change memory (PCM) promise to increase storage system performance by a wide margin relative to both conventional disks and ...
Adrian M. Caulfield, Arup De, Joel Coburn, Todor I...
Optimizing the performance of a multi-core microprocessor within a power budget has recently received a lot of attention. However, most existing solutions are centralized and cann...