Many distributed applications can make use of large background transfers ? transfers of data that humans are not waiting for ? to improve availability, reliability, latency or con...
An algorithm is proposed for the purpose of optimizing the availability of files to an operating system prior to their being required during execution by a running system. This al...
Helper threading is a technique that utilizes a second core or logical processor in a multi-threaded system to improve the performance of the main thread. A helper thread executes...
Three different partial differential equation (PDE) solver kernels are analyzed in respect to cache memory performance on a simulated shared memory computer. The kernels implement...