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KIVS
1999
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Mobile Agents as an Architectural Concept for Internet-Based Distributed Applications - The WASP Project Approach
Abstract. After introducing the concept of mobile agents and potential application domains, we motivate why mobile agent technology is an interesting concept for large Internet-bas...
Stefan Fünfrocken, Friedemann Mattern
PPOPP
2009
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Safe open-nested transactions through ownership
Researchers in transactional memory (TM) have proposed open nesting as a methodology for increasing the concurrency of transactional programs. The idea is to ignore "low-leve...
Kunal Agrawal, I.-Ting Angelina Lee, Jim Sukha
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Dingo: taming device drivers
Device drivers are notorious for being a major source of failure in operating systems. In analysing a sample of real defects in Linux drivers, we found that a large proportion (39...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Peter Chubb, Ihor Kuz, Gernot Heise...
PPOPP
2005
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Exposing speculative thread parallelism in SPEC2000
As increasing the performance of single-threaded processors becomes increasingly difficult, consumer desktop processors are moving toward multi-core designs. One way to enhance th...
Manohar K. Prabhu, Kunle Olukotun
ICS
2005
Tsinghua U.
15 years 10 months ago
Disk layout optimization for reducing energy consumption
Excessive power consumption is becoming a major barrier to extracting the maximum performance from high-performance parallel systems. Therefore, techniques oriented towards reduci...
Seung Woo Son, Guangyu Chen, Mahmut T. Kandemir