Concurrent and incremental collectors require barriers to ensure correct synchronisation between mutator and collector. The overheads imposed by particular barriers on particular ...
Laurence Hellyer, Richard Jones, Antony L. Hosking
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
In this paper, we present a technique for reducing the overhead of collecting path profiles in the context of a dynamic optimizer. The key idea to our approach, called Targeted Pa...
All-to-all broadcast is one of the common collective operations that involve dense communication between all processes in a parallel program. Previously, programmable Network Inte...
We present a static index pruning method, to be used in ad-hoc document retrieval tasks, that follows a documentcentric approach to decide whether a posting for a given term shoul...