Interconnect speeds currently surpass the abilities of today’s processors to satisfy their demands. The throughput rate provided by the network simply generates too much protoco...
Abstract— Software routers are becoming an important alternative to proprietary and expensive network devices, because they exploit the economy of scale of the PC market and open...
Andrea Bianco, Jorge M. Finochietto, Giulio Galant...
With the trend towards increasing number of processor cores in future chip architectures, scalable directory-based protocols for maintaining cache coherence will be needed. Howeve...
Due to the enormous increase in the stored digital contents, search and retrieval functionalities are necessary in multimedia systems. Though processor speed for standard PCs (Per...
Consistency is an important issue in Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) systems. These systems share a set of objects or virtual memory pages. The data sharing enables the applicatio...