The DataLinks technology developed at IBM Almaden Research Center and now available in DB2 UDB 5.2 introduces a new data type called DATALINK for a database to reference and manag...
Abstract. We present a hardware mechanism which dynamically detects uniform and affine vectors used in Graphics Processing Units, to minimize pressure on the register file and redu...
B-trees are the data structure of choice for maintaining searchable data on disk. However, B-trees perform suboptimally ? when keys are long or of variable length, ? when keys are...
Michael A. Bender, Martin Farach-Colton, Bradley C...
We consider the problem of information retrieval in a peerto-peer file sharing system. We assume that peers are unreliable, metadata are sparse, and queries are short. In light o...
—Peer to peer is an important way for files sharing. In existing P2P systems, users need to query and retrieve files, and have to know some knowledge, such as file names, keyword...