How can unlabeled video augment visual learning? Existing methods perform" slow" feature
analysis, encouraging temporal coherence, where the image representations of temporally …

Memory channel contention is a critical performance bottleneck in modern systems that have
highly parallelized processing units operating on large data sets. The memory channel is …

Mobile Web applications have become an integral part of our society. They pose a high
demand for application quality of service (QoS). However, the energy-constrained nature of …

Synthesis of systems containing application-specific as well as reprogrammable
components, such as off-the-shelf microprocessors, provides a promising approach to …

Data prefetching is an effective data access latency hiding technique to mask the CPU stall
caused by cache misses and to bridge the performance gap between processor and …

The emerging distribution-level phasor measurement unit (D-PMU) is expected to play an
important role in enhancing distribution system observability and situational-awareness. It is …

Metadata performance in distributed file systems (DFS) is critical, due to the following
trends:(a) the growing size of modern storage systems is expected to exceed billions of files …

When files are striped in a parallel I/O system, requests to the files are decomposed into a
number of sub-requests that are distributed over multiple servers. If a request is not aligned …

I/O data access is a recognized performance bottleneck of high-end computing. Several
commercial and research parallel file systems have been developed in recent years to ease …

When computing integral curves and integral surfaces for large-scale unsteady flow fields, a
major bottleneck is the widening gap between data access demands and the available …