Database vendors have been advocating data partitioning techniques for managing large volumes of data over the past several years. Oracle has pioneered this trend with Oracle Database 8 and improved ...

Hardware/software partitioning lies at the heart of modern embedded and heterogeneous computing design. It involves deciding which parts of an application should execute in software on general-purpose ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

This paper presents a new hardware/software partitioning methodology for SoCs. Target architecture is composed of a RISC host and one or more configurable microprocessors. First, a system is ...