Performance non-determinism in computer systems complicates evaluation, use, and even development of these systems. In performance evaluation via benchmarking and simulation, nond...
In developing a distributed file system, there are several good reasons for implementing the client file cache manager as a user-level process. These include ease of implementatio...
David C. Steere, James J. Kistler, Mahadev Satyana...
Abstract. In this paper, we consider the problem of filtering in relational hidden Markov models. We present a compact representation for such models and an associated logical par...
Luke S. Zettlemoyer, Hanna M. Pasula, Leslie Pack ...
Common coupling (sharing global variables across modules) is widely accepted as a measure of software quality and maintainability; a low level of common coupling is necessary (but...
Dror G. Feitelson, Tokunbo O. S. Adeshiyan, Daniel...
Petascale parallel computers with more than a million processing cores are expected to be available in a couple of years. Although MPI is the dominant programming interface today ...
Pavan Balaji, Darius Buntinas, David Goodell, Will...