Title of dissertation: Using Locality and Interleaving Information to Improve Shared Cache Performance Wanli Liu, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation directed by: Professor Donald Yeung Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The cache interference is found to play a critical role in optimizing cache allocation among concurrent threads for shared cache. Conventional LRU policy usu...

Introduction: MRI technique with fast pulse sequences and renal eliminated contrast agent has the capability of combining both anatomic and functional information; having advantages over both computed tomography and nuclear scintigraphy for assessing renal function, because it combines high spatial resolution with information on perfusion and function. Aim of Work: Evaluate the role of MR Renog...

Currently, several beef processors employ test-and-hold systems for increased quality control of ground beef. In such programs, each lot of product must be tested and found negative for Escherichia coli O157:H7 prior to release of the product into commerce. Optimization of three testing attributes (detection time, specificity, and sensitivity) is critical to the success of such strategies. Beca...

Buffer caches are used to enhance the performance of file or storage systems by reducing I/O requests to underlying storage media. In particular, multi-level buffer cache hierarchy is commonly deployed on network file systems or storage systems. In this environment, the I/O access pattern on second-level buffer caches of file servers or storage controllers differs from that on upperlevel caches...