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PODC
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Toward a theory of transactional contention managers
In recent software transactional memory proposals, a contention manager module is responsible for ensuring that the system as a whole makes progress. A number of contention manage...
Rachid Guerraoui, Maurice Herlihy, Bastian Pochon
ICPP
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Accurately Modeling Workload Interactions for Deploying Prefetching in Web Servers
Although Web prefetching is regarded as an effective method to improve client access performance, the associated overhead prevents it from being widely deployed. Specifically, a ...
Xin Chen, Xiaodong Zhang
ICDCS
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Process Migration: A Generalized Approach Using a Virtualizing Operating System
Process migration has been used to perform specialized tasks, such as load sharing and checkpoint/restarting long running applications. Implementation typically consists of modifi...
Tom Boyd, Partha Dasgupta
DCOSS
2010
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Halo: Managing Node Rendezvous in Opportunistic Sensor Networks
One vision of an opportunistic sensor network (OSN) uses sensor access points (SAPs) to assign mobile sensors with sensing tasks submitted by applications that could be running any...
Shane B. Eisenman, Hong Lu, Andrew T. Campbell
HPCC
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Study of Bare PC Web Server Performance for Workloads with Dynamic and Static Content
—Bare PC applications do not use an operating system or kernel. The bare PC architecture avoids buffer copying, minimizes interrupts, uses a single thread of execution for proces...
Long He, Ramesh K. Karne, Alexander L. Wijesinha, ...