In this paper, we propose a new hardware unit that performs a 16 × 1 SAD operation. The hardware unit is intended to augment a general-purpose core. Further, we show that the 16 ...
Stephan Wong, Stamatis Vassiliadis, Sorin Cotofana
The Japanese computer industry in 1990s was hit with two major shocks at the same time. One shock was the drastic reform of computers and of network. The other shock was from the ...
Configurations of contemporary DRAM memory systems become increasingly complex. A recent study [5] shows that application performance is highly sensitive to choices of configura...
In high energy physics, bioinformatics, and other disciplines, we encounter applications involving numerous, loosely coupled jobs that both access and generate large data sets. So...
Multicast/broadcast is an important service primitive in networks. The IEEE 802.11 multicast/broadcast protocol is based on the basic access procedure of Carrier Sense Multiple Ac...