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PRDC
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Optimal Choice of Checkpointing Interval for High Availability
Supporting high availability by checkpointing and switching to a backup upon failure of a primary has a cost. Trade-off studies help system architects to decide whether higher ava...
Diana Szentiványi, Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Joh...
SPAA
2010
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Flat combining and the synchronization-parallelism tradeoff
Traditional data structure designs, whether lock-based or lock-free, provide parallelism via fine grained synchronization among threads. We introduce a new synchronization paradi...
Danny Hendler, Itai Incze, Nir Shavit, Moran Tzafr...
LCN
1994
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
The Packet Starvation Effect in CSMA/CD LANs and a Solution
In this paper we explore the packet starvation effect (PSE) that occurs in Ethernet controllers due to the unfairness of the CSMA/CD algorithm. The PSE causes some packets to expe...
Brian Whetten, Stephen Steinberg, Domenico Ferrari
MASCOTS
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Modelling and Validation of Response Times in Zoned RAID
We present and validate an enhanced analytical queueing network model of zoned RAID. The model focuses on RAID levels 01 and 5, and yields the distribution of I/O request response...
Abigail S. Lebrecht, Nicholas J. Dingle, William J...
HPCA
2012
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Flexible register management using reference counting
Conventional out-of-order processors that use a unified physical register file allocate and reclaim registers explicitly using a free list that operates as a circular queue. We ...
Steven Battle, Andrew D. Hilton, Mark Hempstead, A...