WiFi networks have enjoyed an unprecedent penetration rate in recent years. However, due to the limited coverage, existing WiFi infrastructure only provides intermittent connectiv...
Abstract--A hybrid MPI/Pthreads parallelization was implemented in the RAxML phylogenetics code. New MPI code was added to the existing Pthreads production code to exploit parallel...
Main memory latencies have always been a concern for system performance. Given that reads are on the critical path for CPU progress, reads must be prioritized over writes. However...
The energy consumed by data centers is starting to make up a significant fraction of the world’s energy consumption and carbon emissions. A large fraction of the consumed energ...
Nosayba El-Sayed, Ioan A. Stefanovici, George Amvr...
Peer-to-Peer file-sharing applications suffer from a fundamental problem of unfairness. Free-riders cause slower download times for others by contributing little or no upload band...