Chip multiprocessors designed for streaming applications such as Cell BE offer impressive peak performance but suffer from limited bandwidth to offchip main memory. As the number o...
that defines abstract costs for measuring or analyzing the performance of computations, (2) to supply the users with a mapping of these costs onto runtimes on various machine model...
High-performance I/O systems depend on prefetching and caching in order to deliver good performance to applications. These two techniques have generally been considered in isolati...
Tracy Kimbrel, Andrew Tomkins, R. Hugo Patterson, ...
We consider the problem of location management of mobile users. The objective is to keep track of the mobile users in order to deliver calls. The IS-41 is a simple strategy for loc...
Grid users may experience inconsistent performance due to specific characteristics of grids, such as fluctuating workloads, high failure rates, and high resource heterogeneity. Alt...