Clusters of workstations are becoming popular platforms for parallel computing, but performance on these systems is more complex and harder to predict than on traditional parallel...
Geetanjali Sampemane, Scott Pakin, Andrew A. Chien
Mismanagement of the persistent state of a system--all the executable files, configuration settings and other data that govern how a system functions--causes reliability problems,...
Chad Verbowski, Emre Kiciman, Arunvijay Kumar, Bra...
Current communication subsystem mechanisms within workstation and PC class computers are limiting network communications throughput to a small percentage of the present network da...
Klaus Schug, Anura P. Jayasumana, Prasanth Gopalak...
The likely advent of AGI and the long-established trend of improving computational hardware promise a dual revolution in coming decades: machines which are both more intelligent an...
In Thread-Level Speculation (TLS), speculative tasks generate memory state that cannot simply be combined with the rest of the system because it is unsafe. One way to deal with th...