As the industry moves toward larger-scale chip multiprocessors, the need to parallelize applications grows. High inter-thread communication delays, exacerbated by over-stressed hi...
Ram Rangan, Neil Vachharajani, Adam Stoler, Guilhe...
The behavior of a multithreaded program does not depend only on its inputs. Scheduling, memory reordering, timing, and low-level hardware effects all introduce nondeterminism in t...
Tom Bergan, Owen Anderson, Joseph Devietti, Luis C...
Perhaps surprisingly, no practical performance models exist for popular (and complex) client applications such as Adobe’s Creative Suite, Microsoft’s Office and Visual Studio...
Eno Thereska, Bjoern Doebel, Alice X. Zheng, Peter...
Undergraduate operating systems courses are generally taught e of two approaches: abstract or concrete. In the approach, students learn the concepts underlying operating systems t...
David Hovemeyer, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Bobby B...
The drive for low-power, high performance computation coupled with the extremely high design costs for ASIC designs, has driven a number of designers to try to create a flexible, ...
Alex Solomatnikov, Amin Firoozshahian, Wajahat Qad...