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USENIX
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Operating System I/O Speculation: How Two Invocations Are Faster Than One
We present an in-kernel disk prefetcher which uses speculative execution to determine what data an application is likely to require in the near future. By placing our design withi...
Keir Faser, Fay Chang
CCGRID
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Elastic Site: Using Clouds to Elastically Extend Site Resources
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing offers new possibilities to scientific communities. One of the most significant is the ability to elastically provision and relin...
Paul Marshall, Kate Keahey, Timothy Freeman
MICRO
2010
IEEE
242views Hardware» more  MICRO 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
ASF: AMD64 Extension for Lock-Free Data Structures and Transactional Memory
Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an AMD64 hardware extension for lock-free data structures and transactional memory. It provides a speculative region that atomically exec...
Jae-Woong Chung, Luke Yen, Stephan Diestelhorst, M...
CGO
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 days ago
Fast Track: A Software System for Speculative Program Optimization
—Fast track is a software speculation system that enables unsafe optimization of sequential code. It speculatively runs optimized code to improve performance and then checks the ...
Kirk Kelsey, Tongxin Bai, Chen Ding, Chengliang Zh...
CLIMA
2010
13 years 4 months ago
Speculative Abductive Reasoning for Hierarchical Agent Systems
Answer sharing is a key element in multi-agent systems as it allows agents to collaborate towards achieving a global goal. However exogenous knowledge of the world can influence e...
Jiefei Ma, Krysia Broda, Randy Goebel, Hiroshi Hos...