This paper presents kernel plugins, a framework for dynamic kernel specialization inspired by ideas borrowed from virtualization research. Plugins can be created and updated inexp...
Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an AMD64 hardware extension for lock-free data structures and transactional memory. It provides a speculative region that atomically exec...
Jae-Woong Chung, Luke Yen, Stephan Diestelhorst, M...
This paper provides an evaluation of SGI® RASC™ RC100 technology from a computational science software developer’s perspective. A brute force implementation of a two-point an...
Volodymyr V. Kindratenko, Robert J. Brunner, Adam ...
Abstract: Molecular Dynamics (MD) is of central importance to computational chemistry and its myriad applications. Here we show that, at even a preliminary stage of development, MD...
Yongfeng Gu, Tom Van Court, Douglas DiSabello, Mar...
Thermal management of DRAM memory has become a critical issue for server systems. We have done, to our best knowledge, the first study of software thermal management for memory su...