Most general-purpose processors provide support for memory pages of large sizes, called superpages. Superpages enable each entry in the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) to map a...
Juan Navarro, Sitaram Iyer, Peter Druschel, Alan L...
A recent trend has seen the extension of objectoriented middleware to component-oriented middleware. A major advantage components offer over objects is that only the business logi...
Achmad I. Kistijantoro, Graham Morgan, Santosh K. ...
Today Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are a largely underexploited resource on existing desktops and a possible costeffective enhancement to high-performance systems. To date, mo...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Elizeu Santo...
Abstract. Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) gives software developers the opportunity to write parallel programs more easily compared to any previous programming method, and yiel...
The rise of multi-core processors has shifted performance efforts towards parallel programs. However, single-threaded code, whether from legacy programs or ones difficult to para...