Reconfigurable architectures that tightly integrate a standard CPU core with a field-programmable hardware structure have recently been receiving increased attention. The design of such a hybrid reconfigurable processor involves a multitude of design decisions regarding the field-programmable structure as well as its system integration with the CPU core. Determining the impact of these design d...

One of the principal concerns in graduate admissions is how future performance in graduate studies may be predicted from a candidate’s undergraduate achievements. In this study, we examined the statistical relationship between B.Sc. and M.Sc. achievements using a dataset that is not subject to an admission-induced selection bias. Our analysis yielded three insights. First, we were able to expla...

Performance estimate of queries is a necessary part of any efficient database design methodology. In this paper, a high level performance estimator for relational queries is presented which is different from conventional evaluators such as SYSTEM R [Selinger 1979] in that performance is predicted without the details of the low level constructs such as links and indices. Rather, abstractions and...

Pareto-optimal power-performance system configurations can improve performance for a power budget or reduce power for a performance target, both leading to energy savings. We develop a new power-performance management framework that seeks to operate at the pareto-optimal frontier for dynamically reconfigurable systems, focusing on singlenode reconfigurations in this paper. Our framework uses ne...