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DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Parallel programming: can we PLEASE get it right this time?
The computer industry has a problem. As Moore's law marches on, we will be exploiting it to double cores, not frequencies. But all those cores ... 2 to 4 today growing to 8, ...
Tim Mattson, Michael Wrinn
ACMDIS
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
What do usability evaluators do in practice?: an explorative study of think-aloud testing
Think-aloud testing is a widely employed usability evaluation method, yet its use in practice is rarely studied. We report an explorative study of 14 think-aloud sessions, the aud...
Mie Nørgaard, Kasper Hornbæk
CASES
2001
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
The emerging power crisis in embedded processors: what can a poor compiler do?
It is widely acknowledged that even as VLSI technology advances, there is a looming crisis that is an important obstacle to the widespread deployment of mobile embedded devices, n...
Lakshmi N. Chakrapani, Pinar Korkmaz, Vincent John...
DSN
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Why PCs Are Fragile and What We Can Do About It: A Study of Windows Registry Problems
Software configuration problems are a major source of failures in computer systems. In this paper, we present a new framework for categorizing configuration problems. We apply thi...
Archana Ganapathi, Yi-Min Wang, Ni Lao, Ji-Rong We...
USITS
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Why Do Internet Services Fail, and What Can Be Done About It?
In 1986 Jim Gray published his landmark study of the causes of failures of Tandem systems and the techniques Tandem used to prevent such failures [6]. Seventeen years later, Inter...
David L. Oppenheimer, Archana Ganapathi, David A. ...