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SIGMOD
2001
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
Improving Index Performance through Prefetching
This paper proposes and evaluates Prefetching B+ -Trees pB+ -Trees, which use prefetching to accelerate two important operations on B+ -Tree indices: searches and range scans. To ...
Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Todd C. Mowry
CIKM
1994
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Intelligent Caching: Selecting, Representing, and Reusing Data in an Information Server
Accessing information sources to retrieve data requested by a user can be expensive, especially when dealing with distributed information sources. One way to reduce this cost is t...
Yigal Arens, Craig A. Knoblock
IPPS
2010
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Fast Smith-Waterman hardware implementation
The Smith-Waterman (SW) algorithm is one of the widely used algorithms for sequence alignment in computational biology. With the growing size of the sequence database, there is alw...
Zubair Nawaz, Koen Bertels, Huseyin Ekin Sumbul
SIGGRAPH
1992
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Interactive inspection of solids: cross-sections and interferences
To reduce the cost of correcting design errors, assemblies of mechanical parts are modeled using CAD systems and verified electronically before the designs are sent to manufacturi...
Jarek Rossignac, Abe Megahed, Bengt-Olaf Schneider
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GLOBECOM
2010
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
GreenCloud: A Packet-Level Simulator of Energy-Aware Cloud Computing Data Centers
Cloud computing data centers are becoming increasingly popular for the provisioning of computing resources. The cost and operating expenses of data centers have skyrocketed with th...
Dzmitry Kliazovich, Pascal Bouvry, Yury Audzevich,...