Scalable busy-wait synchronization algorithms are essential for achieving good parallel program performance on large scale multiprocessors. Such algorithms include mutual exclusio...
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Many large scale applications have significant I/O requirements as well as computational and memory requirements. Unfortunately, the limited number of I/O nodes provided in a typic...
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From the point of view of an operating system, a computer is managed and optimized in terms of the application programming model and the management of system resources. For the TF...
As modern multi-tier systems are becoming increasingly large and complex, it becomes more difficult for system analysts to understand the overall behavior of the system, and diag...
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