The basic system timer facilities used by applications and OS kernels for scheduling timeouts and periodic activities have remained largely unchanged for decades, while hardware a...
Simon Peter, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Roscoe, Paul ...
Operating systems were created to provide multiple tasks with access to scarce hardware resources like CPU, memory, or storage. Modern programmable hardware, however, may contain ...
Abstract—Execution of applications on upcoming highperformance computing (HPC) systems introduces a variety of new challenges and amplifies many existing ones. These systems will...
Avneesh Pant, Hassan Jafri, Volodymyr V. Kindraten...
—Multicore machines are becoming common. There are many languages, language extensions and libraries devoted to improve the programmability and performance of these machines. In ...
Diego Andrade, Basilio B. Fraguela, James C. Brodm...
Parallel architectures are the way of the future, but are notoriously difficult to program. In addition to the low-level constructs they often present (e.g., locks, DMA, and non-...