Near-optimal parallel prefetching and caching

SIAM Journal on Computing

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1051-1082

  Kimbrel, Tracy ^a   Karlin, Anna R ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; FILE ORGANIZATION; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); THEOREM PROVING;

CACHING; PREFETCHING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 0033701442     PISSN: 00975397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0097539797326976     Document Type: Article

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