We introduce the online scheduling problem for sorting buffers. A service station and a sorting buffer are given. An input sequence of items which are only characterized by a specific attribute has to be processed by the service station which benefits from consecutive items with the same attribute value. The sorting buffer which is a random access buffer with storage capacity for k items can be...

We investigate the relative performance impact of nonblocking loads, stream buffers, and specula five execution both used individually and in conjunction with each other. We have simulated the SPEC92 benchmarks on a statically scheduled quad-issue processor model. running code from the Multijlow compiler. Non-blocking loads and stream buffers both provide a signif cant performance advantage, an...

Cellular Ca2+ buffers determine amplitude and diffusional spread of neuronal Ca2+ signals. Fixed Ca2+ buffers tend to retard the signal and to lower the apparent diffusion coefficient (D(app)) of Ca2+, whereas mobile buffers contribute to Ca2+ redistribution. To estimate the impact of the expression of specific Ca2+-binding proteins or the errors in Ca2+ measurement introduced by indicator dyes...

Combined input-crosspoint buffered (CICB) packet switches have been of research interest in the last few years because of their high performance. These switches provide higher performance than input-buffered (IB) packet switches while requiring the crosspoint buffers run at the same speed as that of the input buffers in IB switches. Recently, it has been shown that CICB switches with one-cell c...

A great deal of recent research attention has been given to the throughput maximization of interconnection networks. These networks connect computer processing and routing resources via both physical and wireless links, where the resources are reconfigurable in a dynamic fashion. Jobs move through several processing stations and can be buffered between each stage. Most theoretical work assumes ...

Functional studies on isolated mitochondria critically rely on the right choice of respiration buffer. Differences in buffer composition can lead to dramatically different respiration rates leading to difficulties in comparing prior studies. The ideal buffer facilities high ADP-stimulated respiratory rates and minimizes substrate transport effects so that the ability to distinguish between vari...

Bovine plasminogen activator was isolated from a mixture of streptokinase and human plasminogen. The method of preparation was based on the difference in solubility between the activator and its precursors. The activator can be prepared from either crude or highly purified streptokinase and highly purified human plasminogen. The activator complex gave a single component in starch gel electropho...

The paper studies a single-server queueing system with autonomous service and l priority classes. Arrival and departure processes are governed by marked point processes. There are l buffers corresponding to priority classes, and upon arrival a unit of the kth priority class occupies a place in the kth buffer. Let N , k = 1, 2, . . . , l denote the quota for the total kth buffer content. The val...

Small n ×n switches are key components of multistage interconnection networks and communication coprocessors used in multiprocessors and multicomputers. Communication latency and throughput are critically dependent on the structure of the internal buffers in these switches. We have previously introduced the architecture of a new type of buffer, called a dynamically-allocated multi-queue (DAMQ) ...

In multimedia and graphics applications, data samples of nonprimitive type require significant amount of buffer memory. This paper addresses the problem of minimizing the buffer memory requirement for such applications in embedded software synthesis from graphical dataflow programs based on the synchronous dataflow (SDF) model with the given execution order of nodes. We propose a memory minimiz...