Locking is a common approach to solve integrity problems that arise from multiple concurrent accesses to a database system. Locking granularity refers to the size of a lockable data unit, called a "granule", in a database system. Fine granularity improves system performance by increasing concurrency level but it also increases lock management overhead. Coarse granularity, on the other hand, sac...

A well-known problem in designing high-level parallel programming models and languages is the “granularity problem”, where the execution of parallel task instances that are too fine-grain incur large overheads in the parallel runtime and decrease the speed-up achieved by parallel execution. On the other hand, tasks that are too coarse-grain create load-imbalance and do not adequately utilize th...

Hardware/software partitioning is a key issue in the design of embedded systems when performance constraints have to be met and chip area and/or power dissipation are critical. For that reason, diverse approaches to automatic hardware/software partitioning have been proposed since the early 1990s. In all approaches so far, the granularity during partitioning is fixed, i.e., either small system ...