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IEEEPACT
2005
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
HUNTing the Overlap
Hiding communication latency is an important optimization for parallel programs. Programmers or compilers achieve this by using non-blocking communication primitives and overlappi...
Costin Iancu, Parry Husbands, Paul Hargrove
PPOPP
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Analyzing lock contention in multithreaded applications
Many programs exploit shared-memory parallelism using multithreading. Threaded codes typically use locks to coordinate access to shared data. In many cases, contention for locks r...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Allan P...
IUI
2004
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
An intelligent assistant for interactive workflow composition
Complex applications in many areas, including scientific computations and business-related web services, are created from collections of components to form workflows. In many case...
Jihie Kim, Marc Spraragen, Yolanda Gil
JIDM
2010
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15 years 1 months ago
Evaluation of Conditional Preference Queries
The need for incorporating preference querying in database technology is a very important issue in a variety of applications ranging from e-commerce to personalized search engines....
Fabiola S. F. Pereira, Sandra de Amo
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
179views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 3 months ago
How to barter bits for chronons: compression and bandwidth trade offs for database scans
Two trends are converging to make the CPU cost of a table scan a more important component of database performance. First, table scans are becoming a larger fraction of the query p...
Allison L. Holloway, Vijayshankar Raman, Garret Sw...