Superscalar microprocessor efficiency is generally not as high as anticipated. In fact, sustained utilization below thirty percent of peak is not uncommon, even for fully optimized...
Abstract— Shared computing utilities allocate compute, network, and storage resources to competing applications on demand. An awareness of the demands and behaviors of the hosted...
To prepare for future peta- or exa-scale computing, it is important to gain a good understanding on what impacts a hierarchical storage system would have on the performance of data...
Weikuan Yu, Sarp Oral, Shane Canon, Jeffrey S. Vet...
Performance of an application can be improved through augmenting the processor with Application specific Functional Units (AFUs). Usually a cluster of operations identified from th...
XML is poised to take the World-Wide-Web to the next level of innovation. XML data, large or small, with or without associated schema, will be exchanged between increasing number ...