The memory hierarchy of most multicore systems contains one or more levels of cache that is shared among multiple cores. The shared-cache architecture presents many opportunities f...
DNA sequence alignment is a very important problem in bioinformatics. The algorithm proposed by Smith-Waterman (SW) is an exact method that obtains optimal local alignments in qua...
Azzedine Boukerche, Jan Mendonca Correa, Alba Cris...
Approximate string matching problem is a common and often repeated task in information retrieval and bioinformatics. This paper proposes a generic design of a programmable array p...
Panagiotis D. Michailidis, Konstantinos G. Margari...
Task-selection policies are critical to the performance of any architecture that uses speculation to extract parallel tasks from a sequential thread. This paper demonstrates that ...
Mayank Agarwal, Kshitiz Malik, Kevin M. Woley, Sam...
In multicluster systems, and more generally, in grids, jobs may require co-allocation, i.e., the simultaneous allocation of resources such as processors and input files in multipl...