While parallelism and multi-cores are receiving much attention as a major scalability path, customization is another, orthogonal and complementary, scalability path which can targ...
Sami Yehia, Sylvain Girbal, Hugues Berry, Olivier ...
Abstract—Home area networks (HANs) promise to enable sophisticated home automation applications such as smart energy usage and assisted living. However, recent empirical study of...
Given the decreasing cost of non-volatile RAM (NVRAM), by the late 1990's it will be feasible for most workstations to include a megabyte or more of NVRAM, enabling the desig...
Mary Baker, Satoshi Asami, Etienne Deprit, John K....
—Current leadership-class machines suffer from a significant imbalance between their computational power and their I/O bandwidth. While Moore’s law ensures that the computatio...
Nawab Ali, Philip H. Carns, Kamil Iskra, Dries Kim...
Software systems evolve over time due to changes in requirements, optimization of code, fixes for security and reliability bugs etc. Code churn, which measures the changes made to...