Hard-to-predict branches depending on longlatency cache-misses have been recognized as a major performance obstacle for modern microprocessors. With the widening speed gap between...
Hongliang Gao, Yi Ma, Martin Dimitrov, Huiyang Zho...
Background: Parallel T-Coffee (PTC) was the first parallel implementation of the T-Coffee multiple sequence alignment tool. It is based on MPI and RMA mechanisms. Its purpose is t...
Josep Rius Torrento, Fernando Cores, Francesc Sols...
This paper describes transparent mechanisms for emulating some of the data distribution facilities offered by traditional data-parallel programming models, such as High Performance...
Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Theodore S. Papatheodor...
Two trends are converging to make the CPU cost of a table scan a more important component of database performance. First, table scans are becoming a larger fraction of the query p...
Allison L. Holloway, Vijayshankar Raman, Garret Sw...
Ensuring transactional behavior of business processes and web service compositions is an essential issue in the area of serviceoriented computing. Transactions in this context may ...