— Being able to test the intrinsic performance of a device under test (DUT) has always been the main goal of a test engineer. Achieving this goal is becoming increasingly diffic...
We study the runtime distributions of backtrack procedures for propositional satisfiability and constraint satisfaction. Such procedures often exhibit a large variability in perfor...
Carla P. Gomes, Bart Selman, Nuno Crato, Henry A. ...
Prior research shows that database system performance is dominated by off-chip data stalls, resulting in a concerted effort to bring data into on-chip caches. At the same time, hi...
Nikos Hardavellas, Ippokratis Pandis, Ryan Johnson...
Graphics-intensive computer games are no longer restricted to highperformance desktops, but are also available on a variety of portable devices ranging from notebooks to PDAs and ...
The Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) of a programmable processor is the native languageof the machine. It defines the set of operations and resourcesthat are optimized for that ...