In emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites, the number of users is very important (tens of thousands), hence the amount of data to manage...
Over the past few years there has been increased interest in building custom computing machines (CCMs) as a way of achieving very high performance on specific problems. The advent...
David Abramson, Paul Logothetis, Adam Postula, Mar...
Autotuning technology has emerged recently as a systematic process for evaluating alternative implementations of a computation, in order to select the best-performing solution for...
Jaewook Shin, Mary W. Hall, Jacqueline Chame, Chun...
Validation is critically important when human performance models are used to predict the effect of future system designs on human performance. A model of flight deck operations was...
Brian F. Gore, Becky L. Hooey, Nancy Haan, Deborah...
A grid has to provide strong incentive for participating sites to join and stay in it. Participating sites are concerned with the performance improvement brought by the gird for th...