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SOSP
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Speculative execution in a distributed file system
Speculator provides Linux kernel support for speculative execution. It allows multiple processes to share speculative state by tracking causal dependencies propagated through inte...
Edmund B. Nightingale, Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn
ASPLOS
1998
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Data Speculation Support for a Chip Multiprocessor
Thread-level speculation is a technique that enables parallel execution of sequential applications on a multiprocessor. This paper describes the complete implementation of the sup...
Lance Hammond, Mark Willey, Kunle Olukotun
ISCA
2008
IEEE
185views Hardware» more  ISCA 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
From Speculation to Security: Practical and Efficient Information Flow Tracking Using Speculative Hardware
Dynamic information flow tracking (also known as taint tracking) is an appealing approach to combat various security attacks. However, the performance of applications can severely...
Haibo Chen, Xi Wu, Liwei Yuan, Binyu Zang, Pen-Chu...
ICS
1999
Tsinghua U.
13 years 9 months ago
Improving the performance of speculatively parallel applications on the Hydra CMP
Hydra is a chip multiprocessor (CMP) with integrated support for thread-level speculation. Thread-level speculation provides a way to parallelize sequential programs without the n...
Kunle Olukotun, Lance Hammond, Mark Willey
CIKM
1995
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Using Speculation to Reduce Server Load and Service Time on the WWW
Speculative service implies that a client's request for a document is serviced by sending, in addition to the document requested, a number of other documents (or pointers the...
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