Identifying the regularities underlying speaker decisions to emphasize or de-emphasize an item intonationally has long been the subject of speculation and controversy. This paper ...
Good spatial locality alleviates both the latency and bandwidth problem of memory by boosting the effect of prefetching and improving the utilization of cache. However, convention...
Xiaoming Gu, Ian Christopher, Tongxin Bai, Chengli...
The complexity of parallel I/O systems lies in the deep I/O stack with many software layers and concurrent I/O request handling at multiple layers. This paper explores multi-layer...
We present the design of a dynamic compilation system for C. Directed by a few declarative user annotations specifying where and on what dynamic compilation is to take place, a bi...
Brian Grant, Markus Mock, Matthai Philipose, Craig...
In this paper we describe a new technique, called pipeline spectroscopy, and use it to measure the cost of each cache miss. The cost of a miss is displayed (graphed) as a histogra...
Thomas R. Puzak, Allan Hartstein, Philip G. Emma, ...