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Algorithms that have to process large data sets have to take into account that the cost of memory access depends on where the data is stored. Traditional algorithm design is based on the von Neumann model where accesses to memory have uniform cost. Actual machines increasingly deviate from this model: while waiting for memory access, nowadays, microprocessors can in principle execute 1000 additions of registers; for hard disk access this factor can reach six orders of magnitude. The 16 coherent chapters in this monograph-like tutorial book introduce and survey algorithmic techniques used to achieve high performance on memory hierarchies; emphasis is placed on methods interesting from a theoretical as well as important from a practical point of view.

Computer algorithms --- Data structures (Computer science) --- Memory hierarchy (Computer science) --- Computer Science --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer algorithms. --- Information structures (Computer science) --- Structures, Data (Computer science) --- Structures, Information (Computer science) --- Computer science. --- Software engineering. --- Operating systems (Computers). --- Data structures (Computer science). --- File organization (Computer science). --- Algorithms. --- Computer engineering. --- Computer Science. --- Computer Engineering. --- Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity. --- Software Engineering. --- Operating Systems. --- Data Storage Representation. --- Files. --- Computer storage devices --- Electronic data processing --- File organization (Computer science) --- Abstract data types (Computer science) --- Algorithms --- Computer software. --- Data structures (Computer scienc. --- Data Structures and Information Theory. --- Informatics --- Science --- Computer operating systems --- Computers --- Disk operating systems --- Systems software --- Computer software engineering --- Engineering --- Software, Computer --- Computer systems --- Operating systems --- Algorism --- Algebra --- Arithmetic --- Foundations --- Design and construction --- Operating systems (Computers)