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2012
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A File Is Not a File: Understanding the I/O Behavior of Apple Desktop Applications
We analyze the I/O behavior of iBench, a new collection of productivity and multimedia application workloads. Our analysis reveals a number of differences between iBench and typic...
Tyler Harter, Chris Dragga, Michael Vaughn, Andrea...
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PLDI
2012
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Parallelizing top-down interprocedural analyses
Modularity is a central theme in any scalable program analysis. The core idea in a modular analysis is to build summaries at procedure boundaries, and use the summary of a procedu...
Aws Albarghouthi, Rahul Kumar, Aditya V. Nori, Sri...
PLDI
2012
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Effective parallelization of loops in the presence of I/O operations
Software-based thread-level parallelization has been widely studied for exploiting data parallelism in purely computational loops to improve program performance on multiprocessors...
Min Feng, Rajiv Gupta, Iulian Neamtiu
PLDI
2012
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Adaptive input-aware compilation for graphics engines
While graphics processing units (GPUs) provide low-cost and efficient platforms for accelerating high performance computations, the tedious process of performance tuning required...
Mehrzad Samadi, Amir Hormati, Mojtaba Mehrara, Jan...
PLDI
2012
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Reagents: expressing and composing fine-grained concurrency
Efficient communication and synchronization is crucial for finegrained parallelism. Libraries providing such features, while indispensable, are difficult to write, and often ca...
Aaron Turon
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PLDI
2012
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Chimera: hybrid program analysis for determinism
Chimera1 uses a new hybrid program analysis to provide deterministic replay for commodity multiprocessor systems. Chimera leverages the insight that it is easy to provide determin...
Dongyoon Lee, Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn, Satish N...
PLDI
2012
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Scalable and precise dynamic datarace detection for structured parallelism
Existing dynamic race detectors suffer from at least one of the following three limitations: (i) space overhead per memory location grows linearly with the number of parallel thre...
Raghavan Raman, Jisheng Zhao, Vivek Sarkar, Martin...
PLDI
2012
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
The implicit calculus: a new foundation for generic programming
Generic programming (GP) is an increasingly important trend in programming languages. Well-known GP mechanisms, such as type classes and the C++0x concepts proposal, usually combi...
Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Tom Schrijvers, Wontae Ch...