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1999
Tsinghua U.
13 years 9 months ago
Improving the performance of bristled CC-NUMA systems using virtual channels and adaptivity
Current high-end parallel systems achieve low-latency, highbandwidth network communication through the use of aggressive design techniques and expensive mechanical and electrical ...
José F. Martínez, Josep Torrellas, J...
PLDI
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
DRFX: a simple and efficient memory model for concurrent programming languages
The most intuitive memory model for shared-memory multithreaded programming is sequential consistency (SC), but it disallows the use of many compiler and hardware optimizations th...
Daniel Marino, Abhayendra Singh, Todd D. Millstein...
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Improving the reliability of commodity operating systems
Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example,...
Michael M. Swift, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy
ACMMSP
2006
ACM
226views Hardware» more  ACMMSP 2006»
13 years 9 months ago
Smarter garbage collection with simplifiers
We introduce a method for providing lightweight daemons, called simplifiers, that attach themselves to program data. If a data item has a simplifier, the simplifier may be run aut...
Melissa E. O'Neill, F. Warren Burton
IPPS
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 days ago
Portable builds of HPC applications on diverse target platforms
—High-end machines at modern HPC centers are constantly undergoing hardware and system software upgrades – necessitating frequent rebuilds of application codes. The number of p...
Magdalena Slawiñska, Jaroslaw Slawinski, Va...