239 views119 votes15 years 8 months ago ISCA 2009»
The memory subsystem accounts for a significant cost and power budget of a computer system. Current DRAM-based main memory systems are starting to hit the power and cost limit. A...
The Sony–Toshiba–IBM Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) is a heterogeneous multicore architecture that consists of a traditional microprocessor (PPE) with eight SIMD co-process...
As the IT industry is becoming more and more interested in service oriented business models and upcoming technologies like Web Services or Grid Computing, the need for automated c...
238 views152 votes14 years 1 months ago ANCS 2011»
The largest enterprise networks already contain hundreds of thousands of hosts. Enterprise networks are composed of Ethernet subnets interconnected by IP routers. These routers re...
Spin-Transfer Torque RAM (STT-RAM) is an emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) technology that has the potential to replace the conventional on-chip SRAM caches for designing a more ...
189 views113 votes15 years 8 months ago ISCA 2009»
Caching techniques have been an efficient mechanism for mitigating the effects of the processor-memory speed gap. Traditional multi-level SRAM-based cache hierarchies, especially...
166 views123 votes15 years 1 months ago DEBU 2006»
Performance tuning in modern database systems requires a lot of expertise, is very time consuming and often misdirected. Tuning attempts often lack a methodology that has a holist...
— This paper describes a methodology to design a workflow management system where a set of intelligent software agents composes an interactive scenario. The Workflow Management C...
—Visual categorization is important to manage large collections of digital images and video, where textual metadata is often incomplete or simply unavailable. The bag-of-words mo...
150 views122 votes15 years 5 months ago GRID 2000»
Abstract. In this paper we report on preliminary work and architectural design carried out in the "Data Management" work package in the International Data Grid project. O...