Data intensive applications on clusters often require requests quickly be sent to the node managing the desired data. In many applications, one must look through a sorted tree str...
Real-time rendering of massively textured 3D scenes usually involves two major problems: Large numbers of texture switches are a well-known performance bottleneck and the set of s...
This paper examines important factors for link prediction in networks and provides a general, high-performance framework for the prediction task. Link prediction in sparse network...
Ryan Lichtenwalter, Jake T. Lussier, Nitesh V. Cha...
Software updates typically require stopping and restarting an application, but many systems cannot afford to halt service, or would prefer not to. Dynamic software updating (DSU) ...
Iulian Neamtiu, Michael W. Hicks, Gareth Stoyle, M...
The advent of multicores presents a promising opportunity for exploiting fine grained parallelism present in programs. Programs parallelized in the above fashion, typically involv...