The fth release of the multithreaded language Cilk uses a provably good \work-stealing" scheduling algorithm similar to the rst system, but the language has been completely r...
Matteo Frigo, Charles E. Leiserson, Keith H. Randa...
Instant messaging (IM) has become increasingly popular due to its quick response time, its ease of use, and possibility of multitasking. It is estimated that there are several mil...
Synthesizing architectural requirements from an application viewpoint can help in making important architectural design decisions towards building large scale parallel machines. I...
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Aman Singla, Umakishore Ram...
Firewall policies can be extremely complex and difficult to maintain, especially on networks with more than a few hundred machines. The difficulty of configuring a firewall proper...
Despite a low occurrence rate, silent data corruption represents a growing concern for storage systems designers. Throughout the storage hierarchy, from the file system down to th...