Historically, bitmap indexing has provided an important database capability to accelerate queries. However, only a few database systems have implemented these indexes because of t...
Elizabeth J. O'Neil, Patrick E. O'Neil, Kesheng Wu
With the advent of chip-multiprocessors, we are faced with the challenge of parallelizing performance-critical software. Transactional memory (TM) has emerged as a promising progr...
Marek Olszewski, Jeremy Cutler, J. Gregory Steffan
As multi-core architectures flourish in the marketplace, multi-application workload scenarios (such as server consolidation) are growing rapidly. When running multiple application...
Li Zhao, Ravi R. Iyer, Ramesh Illikkal, Jaideep Mo...
A common pattern in scientific computing involves the execution of many tasks that are coupled only in the sense that the output of one may be passed as input to one or more other...
Yong Zhao, Mihael Hategan, Ben Clifford, Ian T. Fo...
Abstract— The optimal model parameters of a kernel machine are typically given by the solution of a convex optimisation problem with a single global optimum. Obtaining the best p...