This paper examines the performance of desktop applications running on the Microsoft Windows NT operating system on Intel x86 processors, and contrasts these applications to the p...
Dennis C. Lee, Patrick Crowley, Jean-Loup Baer, Th...
Multi-core processors are planned for virtually all next-generation HPC systems. In a preliminary evaluation of AMD Opteron Dual-Core processor systems, we investigated the scaling...
Sadaf R. Alam, Richard F. Barrett, Jeffery A. Kueh...
We study the problem of representing images within a multimedia Database Management System (DBMS), in order to support fast retrieval operations without compromising storage e cien...
Sergio D. Servetto, Yong Rui, Kannan Ramchandran, ...
MapReduce is emerging as an important programming model for large-scale data-parallel applications such as web indexing, data mining, and scientific simulation. Hadoop is an open-...
Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, ...
Exotic semirings such as the “(max, +) semiring” (R ∪ {−∞}, max, +), or the “tropical semiring” (N ∪ {+∞}, min, +), have been invented and reinvented many times s...