Software evolves to fix bugs and add features. Stopping and restarting programs to apply changes is inconvenient and often costly. Dynamic software updating (DSU) addresses this ...
Suriya Subramanian, Michael W. Hicks, Kathryn S. M...
Thermal effects are becoming a limiting factor in highperformance circuit design due to the strong temperaturedependence of leakage power, circuit performance, IC package cost and...
Zhijian Lu, Wei Huang, John Lach, Mircea R. Stan, ...
Main memory in many tera-scale systems requires tens of kilowatts of power. The resulting energy consumption increases system cost and the heat produced reduces reliability. Emerg...
Matthew E. Tolentino, Joseph Turner, Kirk W. Camer...
Increasing demands upon embedded systems for higher level services like networking, user interfaces and file system management, are driving growth in fully-featured operating syst...
Message-passing is an attractive thread coordination mechanism because it cleanly delineates points in an execution when threads communicate, and unifies synchronization and comm...
K. C. Sivaramakrishnan, Lukasz Ziarek, Raghavendra...