Recent high-performance processors employ sophisticated techniques to overlap and simultaneously execute multiple computation and memory operations. Intuitively, these techniques ...
Anastassia Ailamaki, David J. DeWitt, Mark D. Hill...
Main memory is responsible for a large and increasing fraction of the energy consumed by servers. Prior work has focused on exploiting DRAM low-power states to conserve energy. Ho...
Qingyuan Deng, David Meisner, Luiz E. Ramos, Thoma...
—“Big Data” in map-reduce (M-R) clusters is often fundamentally temporal in nature, as are many analytics tasks over such data. For instance, display advertising uses Behavio...
Badrish Chandramouli, Jonathan Goldstein, Songyun ...
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...
—Knowledge of the network path properties such as latency, hop count, loss and bandwidth is key to the performance of overlay networks, grids and p2p applications. Network operat...
Rita H. Wouhaybi, Puneet Sharma, Sujata Banerjee, ...