A new technical paper titled “MegaMmap: Blurring the Boundary Between Memory and Storage for Data-Intensive Workloads” was published by researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology. “In this work, ...

Complex, computational work with huge sets of data is now common practice in fields such as genomics, economics, and astrophysics. Researchers in these and similarly data intensive fields depend on ...

In distributed memory systems, not all cores or processors have the same access to memory; see Figure 4.7. Memory is local to a particular core or processor, with only that processor having direct ...

Funded under the European Commission's IST programme, the POP project focused on generating an environment to allow applications designed using the OpenMP Application Program Interface (API) to ...