Stringent power and performance constraints, coupled with detailed knowledge of the target applications of a processor, allows for application-specific processor optimizations. It has been shown that application-specific reconfigurable hash functions eliminate a large number of cache conflict misses. These hash functions minimize conflicts by modifying the mapping of cache blocks to cache sets....

We consider the problem of selecting the single best choice when several groups of choices are presented sequentially for evaluation. In the so-called group interview problem, we assume that the values of choices are random observations from a known distribution function and derive the optimal search strategy that maximizes the probability of selecting the best among all choices. Under the opti...

Cloud is an emerging technology where the providers provide various services to Information Technology by adopting the concept of service oriented architecture, distributed, autonomic, and utility computing. In the present competitive world, building a highly dependable cloud application and opting for the optimal fault tolerant technique for cloud components has become crucial. In this paper, ...