The SGI Origin 2000 is designedto support a wide range of applications and has low local and remote memory latencies. However, it often has a high ratio of remote to local misses....
This paper examines the performance of desktop applications running on the Microsoft Windows NT operating system on Intel x86 processors, and contrasts these applications to the p...
Dennis C. Lee, Patrick Crowley, Jean-Loup Baer, Th...
We present a method for providing response-time guarantees in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks. The method is based on traditional real-time CPU Response-Time Analysis (R...
Informed prefetching and caching based on application disclosure of future I/O accesses (hints) can dramatically reduce the execution time of I/O-intensive applications. A recent ...
Andrew Tomkins, R. Hugo Patterson, Garth A. Gibson
Collision detection is essential for many applications involving simulation, behavior and animation. However, it has been regarded as a computationallydemanding task and is often ...
Thomas C. Hudson, Ming C. Lin, Jonathan D. Cohen, ...