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Automatic <endeca_term>Speculative</endeca_term> DOALL for Clusters

Automatic Speculative DOALL for Clusters

...and profiling, automatic parallelization becomes more robust and applicable. A naive automatic speculative parallelization does not scale for distributed memory clusters, due to the high... Read more

17 January, 2012
Network Congestion Avoidance Through <endeca_term>Speculative</endeca_term> Reservation

Network Congestion Avoidance Through Speculative Reservation

...performance of a computer network. In this paper, the authors present the Speculative Reservation Protocol (SRP), a new network congestion control mechanism that relieves the... Read more

6 January, 2012
Performance Evaluation of Dynamic <endeca_term>Speculative</endeca_term> Multithreading With the Cascadia Architecture

Performance Evaluation of Dynamic Speculative Multithreading With the Cascadia Architecture

...high-performance superscalar processors. One promising method of exploiting TLP is Dynamic Speculative Multi-Threading (D-SpMT), which extracts multiple threads from a sequential program... Read more

1 January, 2012
Mapping Out a Path From Hardware Transactional Memory to <endeca_term>Speculative</endeca_term> Multithreading

Mapping Out a Path From Hardware Transactional Memory to Speculative Multithreading

...memory can be leveraged to significantly reduce the cost of implementing true speculative multithreading. In particular, it explores the path from eager conflict detection HTM... Read more

1 January, 2011
<endeca_term>Speculative</endeca_term> Pipelining for Compute Cloud Programming

Speculative Pipelining for Compute Cloud Programming

...shared compute clouds. The authors propose a pipeline-based scheduling strategy, called speculative pipelining, which uses speculative prefetching and computing to minimize execution delays in... Read more

31 August, 2010
Safe Programmable <endeca_term>Speculative</endeca_term> Parallelism

Safe Programmable Speculative Parallelism

...paradigm to parallelize seemingly sequential code. They propose two new language constructs, speculative composition and speculative iteration Read more

5 June, 2010
Sprint: <endeca_term>Speculative</endeca_term> Prefetching of Remote Data

Sprint: Speculative Prefetching of Remote Data

Remote data access latency is a significant performance bottleneck in many modern programs that use remote databases and... Read more

27 October, 2011
<endeca_term>Speculative</endeca_term> Execution as an Operating System Service

Speculative Execution as an Operating System Service

Software faults and vulnerabilities continue to present significant obstacles to achieving reliable and secure software.... Read more

1 January, 2011
<endeca_term>Speculative</endeca_term> Analysis: Exploring Future Development States of Software

Speculative Analysis: Exploring Future Development States of Software

Most software tools and environments help developers analyze the present and past development states of their software... Read more

8 November, 2010
Kangaroo: <endeca_term>Speculative</endeca_term> Multi-Pattern Matching for Scalable Deep Packet Inspection

Kangaroo: Speculative Multi-Pattern Matching for Scalable Deep Packet Inspection

Multi-pattern matching is a key technique for network security applications like Network Intrusion Detection Systems... Read more

8 August, 2010
SIP: <endeca_term>Speculative</endeca_term> Insertion Policy for High Performance Caching

SIP: Speculative Insertion Policy for High Performance Caching

High performance cache mechanisms have a great impact on overall performance of computer systems by reducing... Read more

1 June, 2010
Operating System Support for Application-Specific Speculation

Operating System Support for Application-Specific Speculation

Speculative execution is a technique that allows serial tasks to execute in parallel... Read more

8 February, 2011

O2 ordered to hand over 9,000 records in porn case

...that the case throws up questions about the use of the order, speculative copyright infringement demands, and data protection. A Norwich Pharmacal order relates to... Read more

27 March, 2012

Photoshop Touch hits iPad 2

...the same app. The release, which ensures that users can now Photoshop speculative renderings of future iPads on the Apple tablet itself, was announced on... Read more

27 February, 2012

O2 owner pins digital growth hopes on new London HQ

...bold move, devoting substantial corporate resources to the pursuit of some rather speculative opportunities," Delaney said. "It reflects a recognition by Telefonica that telecoms can... Read more

6 September, 2011 by Ben Woods

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