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USENIX
1996
13 years 6 months ago
A Performance Comparison of UNIX Operating Systems on the Pentium
This paper evaluates the performance of three popular versions of the UNIX operating system on the x86 architecture: Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. We evaluate the systems using fre...
Kevin Lai, Mary Baker
PVM
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Implementing MPI on Windows: Comparison with Common Approaches on Unix
Commercial HPC applications are often run on clusters that use the Microsoft Windows operating system and need an MPI implementation that runs efficiently in the Windows environmen...
Jayesh Krishna, Pavan Balaji, Ewing L. Lusk, Rajee...
IWMM
2000
Springer
78views Hardware» more  IWMM 2000»
13 years 8 months ago
On the Type Accuracy of Garbage Collection
We describe a novel approach to obtaining type-accurate information for garbage collection in a hardware and language independent way. Our approach uses a run-time analysis to pro...
Martin Hirzel, Amer Diwan
USENIX
1993
13 years 6 months ago
A Library Implementation of POSIX Threads under UNIX
Recently, there has been an effort to specify an IEEE standard for portable operating systems for open systems, called POSIX. One part of it, the POSIX 1003.4a threads extension (...
Frank Mueller
IEEEPACT
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Initial Observations of the Simultaneous Multithreading Pentium 4 Processor
This paper analyzes an Intel Pentium 4 hyper-threading processor. The focus is to understand its performance and the underlying reasons behind that performance. Particular attenti...
Nathan Tuck, Dean M. Tullsen