Data-parallel programs are both growing in importance and increasing in diversity, resulting in specialized processors targeted at specific classes of these programs. This paper ...
Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Stephen W. Keckler, Wil...
Recovery activities, like logging, checkpointing and restart, are used to restore a database to a consistent state after a system crash has occurred. Recovery related overhead is ...
H. V. Jagadish, Abraham Silberschatz, S. Sudarshan
The general purpose processor has long been the focus of intense optimization efforts that have resulted in an impressive doubling of performance every 18 months. However, recent ...
Christopher T. Weaver, Rajeev Krishna, Lisa Wu, To...
This paper deals with a well known problem in AI planning: detecting and resolving conflicts in nonlinear plans. We sketch a theory of restricted conflict detection and resolution...
Due to their high volume, general-purpose processors, and now chip multiprocessors (CMPs), are much more cost effective than ASICs, but lag significantly in terms of performance a...