Over the past two decades, the storage capacity and access bandwidth of main memory
have improved tremendously, by 128x and 20x, respectively. These improvements are …

Numerous recent research eorts have explored the use of Graphics Processing Units
(GPUs) as accelerators for software-based routing and packet handling applications …

This paper presents ScaleBricks, a new design for building scalable, clustered network
appliances that must" pin" flow state to a specific handling node without being able to …

Nanoparticles with a solid, inorganic core surrounded by long chain organic ligands have
many useful properties and applications. A feature of these materials is that their properties …

Operating system kernels are rife with potential concurrency, but exploiting this parallelism
requires significant effort from programmers that write kernel code in C: the language …

In this project, we plan to explore how to optimize a class of applications which perform
computations while traversing irregular data structures. Examples of such irregular data …