Compilation has a long history of translating a programmer's human-readable code into machine instructions designed to make good use of a specific target computer. In this pa...
While medium- and large-sized computing centers have increasingly relied on clusters of commodity PC hardware to provide cost-effective capacity and capability, it is not clear th...
Ron Sass, William V. Kritikos, Andrew G. Schmidt, ...
The lack of memory safety in many popular programming languages, including C and C++, has been a cause for great concern in the realm of software reliability, verification, and mo...
Abstract--The now commonplace multi-core chips have introduced, by design, a deep hierarchy of memory and cache banks within parallel computers as a tradeoff between the user frien...
The increasingly constrained power budget of today's microprocessor has resulted in a situation where power savings of all components in a system have to be taken into consid...