Dual-core processors (and, to an extent, multicore processors) have been adopted in recent years to provide platforms that satisfy the performance requirements of popular multimed...
We characterize the performance and power attributes of the conjugate gradient (CG) sparse solver which is widely used in scientific applications. We use cycle-accurate simulatio...
Konrad Malkowski, Ingyu Lee, Padma Raghavan, Mary ...
Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) is a byte-stream transport protocol implementing the TCP SOCK_STREAM semantics utilizing transport offloading capabilities of the InfiniBand fabric. ...
Dror Goldenberg, Michael Kagan, Ran Ravid, Michael...
of abstractions a middleware system makes available to applications, they figure prominently in determining the breadth and variety of application integration that the middleware s...
Large-scale systems like BlueGene/L are susceptible to a number of software and hardware failures that can affect system performance. Periodic application checkpointing is a commo...