Most modern Chip Multiprocessors (CMP) feature shared cache on chip. For multithreaded applications, the sharing reduces communication latency among co-running threads, but also r...
It is commonly agreed that scheduling mechanisms in general purpose operating systems do not provide adequate support for modern interactive applications, notably multimedia appli...
Real-time Garbage Collection (RTGC) has recently advanced to the point where it is being used in production for financial trading, military command-and-control, and telecommunicat...
Joshua S. Auerbach, David F. Bacon, Perry Cheng, D...
In recent years, the proliferation of VOIP data has created a number of applications in which it is desirable to perform quick online classification and recognition of massive voi...
Repository-based revision control systems such as CVS, RCS, Subversion, and GIT, are extremely useful tools that enable software developers to concurrently modify source code, man...