— Checkpointing is an indispensable technique to provide fault tolerance for long-running high-throughput applications like those running on desktop grids. This paper argues that...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan S. Vaz...
Processor architectures with tens to hundreds of arithmetic units are emerging to handle media processing applications. These applications, such as image coding, image synthesis, ...
Scott Rixner, William J. Dally, Brucek Khailany, P...
Distributed local memories, or scratchpads, have been shown to effectively reduce cost and power consumption of application-specific accelerators while maintaining performance. Th...
Manjunath Kudlur, Kevin Fan, Michael L. Chu, Scott...
Comparing with the classical barcode system, RFID extends the operational distance from inches to a number of feet (passive RFID tags) or even hundreds of feet (active RFID tags)....
Although Flash Memory based Solid State Drive (SSD) exhibits high performance and low power consumption, a critical concern is its limited lifespan along with the associated relia...