Informed prefetching and caching based on application disclosure of future I/O accesses (hints) can dramatically reduce the execution time of I/O-intensive applications. A recent ...
Andrew Tomkins, R. Hugo Patterson, Garth A. Gibson
Current software suites suffer from problems due to poor integration of their individual tools. They require the designer to think of all possible integrating behaviours and leave...
Anind K. Dey, Gregory D. Abowd, Mike Pinkerton, An...
This paper examinestheimplicationsofgang schedulingfor generalpurpose multiprocessors. The workloads in these environments include both compute-bound parallel jobs, which often re...
Walter Lee, Matthew Frank, Victor Lee, Kenneth Mac...
Many people believe that emotions and subjective feelings are one and the same and that a goal of human-centered computing is emotion recognition. The first belief is outdated; the...
Turbo decoding architectures have greater error correcting capability than any other known code. Due to their excellent performance turbo codes have been employed in several trans...