For decades now, the notion of “performance” has been synonymous with “speed” (as measured in FLOPS, short for floating-point operations per second). Unfortunately, this ...
Traditional code optimizers have produced significant performance improvements over the past forty years. While promising avenues of research still exist, traditional static and p...
Jason Hiser, Naveen Kumar, Min Zhao, Shukang Zhou,...
We evaluate response times, in N-user collaborations, of the popular centralized (client-server) and replicated (peer-to-peer) architectures, and a hybrid architecture in which ea...
Virtually every Internet user on the planet uses the powerful free tools offered by a handful of information service providers in many aspects of their personal and professional l...
Applications need to become more concurrent to take advantage of the increased computational power provided by chip level multiprocessing. Programmers have traditionally managed t...
Bratin Saha, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Richard L. Hu...