Reducing the arithmetic precision of a computation has real performance implications, including increased speed, decreased power consumption, and a smaller memory footprint. For s...
Michael D. Linderman, Matthew Ho, David L. Dill, T...
—In the past ten years, computer architecture has seen a paradigm shift from emphasizing single thread performance to energy efficient, throughput oriented, chip multiprocessors...
David Nellans, Kshitij Sudan, Rajeev Balasubramoni...
—Hadoop is a popular open-source implementation of MapReduce for the analysis of large datasets. To manage storage resources across the cluster, Hadoop uses a distributed user-le...
Several efforts have been made over the years for developing file systems in user space. Many of these efforts have failed to make a significant impact as measured by their us...
Web Services (WSs) are the W3C-endorsed realization of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Since they are supposed to be implementation-neutral, WSs are typically tested blac...