The Cell BE is a multicore processor with eight vector accelerators (called SPEs) that implement explicit cache management through direct memory access engines. While the Cell has...
Srinivas Chellappa, Franz Franchetti, Markus P&uum...
Abstract— The migration away from power-hungry, speculative execution procesors towards manycore architectures is good news for the embedded and real-time systems community. Comm...
Abstract. Enterprise-system upgrades are unreliable and often produce downtime or data-loss. Errors in the upgrade procedure, such as broken dependencies, constitute the leading ca...
Abstract. Virtualization-based server consolidation is an important technique for cost and energy reductions in data center environments and a key enabler of cloud computing. Howev...
Gueyoung Jung, Kaustubh R. Joshi, Matti A. Hiltune...
— Checkpointing is an indispensable technique to provide fault tolerance for long-running high-throughput applications like those running on desktop grids. This paper argues that...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan S. Vaz...