We present a formal analysis of the database layout problem, i.e., the problem of determining how database objects such as tables and indexes are assigned to disk drives. Optimizin...
The performance of applications on large shared-memory multiprocessors with coherent caches depends on the interaction between the granularity of data sharing, the size of the coh...
Mahmut T. Kandemir, Alok N. Choudhary, J. Ramanuja...
Visualization of large-scale high dimensional data tool is highly valuable for scientific discovery in many fields. We present PubChemBrowse, a customized visualization tool for c...
Jong Youl Choi, Seung-Hee Bae, Judy Qiu, Geoffrey ...
Many programs exploit shared-memory parallelism using multithreading. Threaded codes typically use locks to coordinate access to shared data. In many cases, contention for locks r...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Allan P...
Current operating systems offer poor performance when a numeric application's working set does not fit in main memory. As a result, programmers who wish to solve "out-of...