This paper presents a novel technique to perform global optimization of communication and preprocessing calls in the presence of array accesses with arbitrary subscripts. Our sche...
Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) is a shared disk RDBMS. We present a high level overview of the main architectural issues of OPS and their evolution throughout the releases of the Or...
Roger Bamford, D. Butler, Boris Klots, N. MacNaugh...
As the effective limits of frequency and instruction level parallelism have been reached, the strategy of microprocessor vendors has changed to increase the number of processing ...
Geoffrey Blake, Ronald G. Dreslinski, Trevor N. Mu...
Given the scale of massively parallel systems, occurrence of faults is no longer an exception but a regular event. Periodic checkpointing is becoming increasingly important in the...
With the availability of chip multiprocessor (CMP) and simultaneous multithreading (SMT) machines, extracting thread level parallelism from a sequential program has become crucial...