Scheduling of processes onto processors of a parallel machine has always been an important and challenging area of research. The issue becomes even more crucial and di cult as we ...
In this paper, we present surplus fair scheduling (SFS), a proportional-share CPU scheduler designed for symmetric multiprocessors. We first show that the infeasibility of certain...
Technical support contributes 17% of the total cost of ownership of today's desktop PCs [25]. An important element of technical support is troubleshooting misconfigured appli...
Helen J. Wang, John C. Platt, Yu Chen, Ruyun Zhang...
Faulty device drivers cause significant damage through down time and data loss. The problem can be mitigated by an improved driver development process that guarantees correctness...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Peter Chubb, Ihor Kuz, Etienne Le S...
Fine-grained multithreading based on a natural model, such as dataflow model, is promising in achieving high efficiency and high programming productivity. In this paper, we disc...