— The advent of packet networks has motivated many researchers to study the performance of networks of queues in the last decade or two. However, most of the previous work assume...
Robust and powerful software instrumentation tools are essential for program analysis tasks such as profiling, performance evaluation, and bug detection. To meet this need, we ha...
Chi-Keung Luk, Robert S. Cohn, Robert Muth, Harish...
The growing class of portable systems, such as personal computing and communication devices, has resulted in a new set of system design requirements, mainly characterized by domin...
Inki Hong, Darko Kirovski, Gang Qu, Miodrag Potkon...
The rise of multi-core processors has shifted performance efforts towards parallel programs. However, single-threaded code, whether from legacy programs or ones difficult to para...
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...