Because of the growing use of multimedia content over Internet, Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has recently received a lot of interest. While accurate search techniques base...
In order to enhance the performance of a computer, most modern processors use superscalar architecture and raise the clock frequency. Superscalar architecture can execute more than...
UPC is an explicit parallel extension of ANSI C, which has been gaining rising attention from vendors and users. In this work, we consider the low-level monitoring and experimenta...
The goal of this research is to develop performance profiles of parallel and distributed applications in order to predict their execution time under different network conditions....
Compared with lock-based synchronization techniques, Software Transactional Memory (STM) can significantly improve the programmability of multithreaded applications. Existing res...