The past few decades have witnessed a chronic and widening imbalance among processor bandwidth, disk capacity, and access speed of disk. According to Amdhal's law, the perfor...
—Current trends in desktop processor design have been toward many-core solutions with increased parallelism. As the number of supported threads grows in these processors, it may ...
New portable consumer embedded devices must execute multimedia applications (e.g., 3D games, video players and signal processing software, etc.) that demand extensive memory acces...
We develop and examine job migration policies by considering effective usage of global memory in addition to CPU load sharing in distributed systems. When a node is identified fo...
In the counting problem, asynchronous concurrent processes repeatedly assign themselves successive values, such as integers or locations in memory. Counting networks are a class o...