For many applications, branch mispredictions and cache misses limit a processor’s performance to a level well below its peak instruction throughput. A small fraction of static i...
Early performance analysis based on Queueing Network Models (QNM) has been often proposed to support software designers during the software development process. These approaches a...
This paper evaluates the performance of three popular versions of the UNIX operating system on the x86 architecture: Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. We evaluate the systems using fre...
The increase in the use of parallel distributed architectures in order to solve large-scale scientific problems has generated the need for performance prediction for both determi...
The Direct Access File System (DAFS) is a distributed file system built on top of direct-access transports (DAT). Direct-access transports are characterized by using remote direct...
Alexandra Fedorova, Margo I. Seltzer, Kostas Magou...