This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
The use of access predictors to improve storage device performance has been investigated for both improving access times, as well as a means of reducing energy consumed by the dis...
Jeffrey P. Rybczynski, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed A...
This paper gives an overview of two middleware systems that have been developed over the last 6 years to address the challenges involved in developing parallel and distributed imp...
Resource discovery in a Grid environment is a critical problem, as a typical Grid system includes a very large number of resources, which must be readily identified and accessed ...
Hashes can be used to provide authentication of multimedia contents. In the case of images, a hash can be used to detect whether the data has been modified in an illegitimate way....
Marco Tagliasacchi, Giuseppe Valenzise, Stefano Tu...