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USENIX
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Transparent Checkpoint-Restart of Multiple Processes on Commodity Operating Systems
The ability to checkpoint a running application and restart it later can provide many useful benefits including fault recovery, advanced resources sharing, dynamic load balancing...
Oren Laadan, Jason Nieh
TC
1998
13 years 7 months ago
Optimizing the Instruction Cache Performance of the Operating System
—High instruction cache hit rates are key to high performance. One known technique to improve the hit rate of caches is to minimize cache interference by improving the layout of ...
Josep Torrellas, Chun Xia, Russell L. Daigle
ICPP
2009
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Cache-Efficient, Intranode, Large-Message MPI Communication with MPICH2-Nemesis
The emergence of multicore processors raises the need to efficiently transfer large amounts of data between local processes. MPICH2 is a highly portable MPI implementation whose l...
Darius Buntinas, Brice Goglin, David Goodell, Guil...
VLDB
2002
ACM
108views Database» more  VLDB 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Generic Database Cost Models for Hierarchical Memory Systems
Accurate prediction of operator execution time is a prerequisite for database query optimization. Although extensively studied for conventional disk-based DBMSs, cost modeling in ...
Stefan Manegold, Peter A. Boncz, Martin L. Kersten
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
On-the-fly kernel updates for high-performance computing clusters
High-performance computing clusters running longlived tasks currently cannot have kernel software updates applied to them without causing system downtime. These clusters miss oppo...
Kristis Makris, Kyung Dong Ryu