“History Teaches Everything, Including the Future”, wrote Alphonse de Lamartine in the nineteen century. Even if history cannot be really considered a predictive science, hist...
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges as they need to process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents. To deal with this heavy workloa...
High-speed I/O circuits, once used only for PHYs, are now widely used for intra-system signaling as well because of their bandwidth, power, area, and cost advantages. This technol...
M.-J. Edward Lee, William J. Dally, Ramin Farjad-R...
A method is presented for modeling application performance on parallel computers in terms of the performance of microkernels from the HPC Challenge benchmarks. Specifically, the a...
The proliferation of new modes of communication and collaboration has resulted in an explosion of digital information. To turn this challenge into an opportunity, the IT industry ...