In MPEG applications, many of the algorithms are data intensive and require high levels of data locality and data reusability. A crucial performance bottleneck is the enormous data bandwidth the involved algorithms require. We focus on improving the speed of hardware MPEG decoders by using a 2-dimensional storage structure as part of a dedicated memory organization. The 2D storage makes the acc...

Video servers store digitized, compressed continuous media information on high-capacity secondary or tertiary storage [6]. The secondary storage devices allow random accessible and provide short seek times compared to tertiary storage. Video server design differs significantly from that of traditional data storage servers due to the large size of the objects stored and the real-time requirement...

We studied the use of dried spots of bodily fluids (plasma, whole blood, and mother's milk) on filter paper as a means of sample collection and storage for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) viral load testing under stringent field conditions. Plasma placed directly in lysis buffer, which is customarily used for viral load assays, was used for comparison in all our experiments. Utilizi...

The data-handling algorithm in many current editors 2 uses a text which is a continuous string of characters. In this technique the characters are moved directly from their input source to the text string by expanding it in tue core buffer. The disadvantage of such existing systems is due to the core buffer constraint. The buffer can be extended to the auxiliary storage but will result in less ...

Most previous work on buffer cache management uses an access-based placement policy that places a data block into a buffer cache at the block’s access time. This paper presents an eviction-based placement policy for a storage cache that usually sits in the lower level of a multi-level buffer cache hierarchy and thereby has different access patterns from upper levels. The main idea of the evicti...