Microprocessor vendors have provided special-purpose instructions such as psadbw and pdist to accelerate the sumof-absolute differences (SAD) similarity measurement. The usefulne...
Asadollah Shahbahrami, Ben H. H. Juurlink, Stamati...
Byzantine agreement algorithms typically assume implicit initial state consistency and synchronization among the correct nodes and then operate in coordinated rounds of informatio...
XML information retrieval (XML-IR) systems aim to provide users with highly exhaustive and highly specific results. To interact with XML-IR systems, users must express both their ...
Modern application infrastructures are based on clustered, multi-tiered architectures, where request distribution occurs in two sequential stages: over a cluster of web servers, a...
Debra E. VanderMeer, Helen M. Thomas, Kaushik Dutt...
As technological process shrinks and clock rate increases, instruction caches can no longer be accessed in one cycle. Alternatives are implementing smaller caches (with higher mis...