The emergence of standards for programming real-time systems in Java has encouraged many developers to consider its use for systems previously only built using C, Ada, or assembly...
Joshua S. Auerbach, David F. Bacon, Bob Blainey, P...
Heterogeneous processors that mix big high performance cores with small low power cores promise excellent single– threaded performance coupled with high multi–threaded through...
Dheeraj Reddy, David A. Koufaty, Paul Brett, Scott...
We report the performance of NOW-Sort, a collection of sorting implementations on a Network of Workstations (NOW). We find that parallel sorting on a NOW is competitive to sortin...
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau,...
Low-power and energy-efficient system implementations have become very important design issues to extend operation duration or cut power bills. To balance the energy consumption r...
Software-controlled data prefetching is a promising technique for improving the performance of the memory subsystem to match today's high-performance processors. While prefet...