Many operating systems allow user programs to specify the protectionlevel (inaccessible, read-only, read-write) of pages in their virtual memory address space, and to handle any p...
ion layer3,4 hides hardware particulars from the higher levels of software but can also compromise performance and compatibility; the higher levels of software often make unwitting...
It is often difficult and time-consuming to manage computer `moves, adds, and changes' that take place in a switched, subnetted environment. It is even more difficult when th...
Christopher J. Tengi, James M. Roberts, Joseph R. ...
The architecture for a shared memory CPU is described. The CPU allows for parallelism down to the level of single instructions and is tolerant of memory latency. All executable in...
Significant opportunities for power optimization exist at application design stage and are not yet fully exploited by system and application designers. We describe the challenges ...