Multiprocessing is already prevalent in servers where multiple clients present an obvious source of thread-level parallelism. However, the case for multiprocessing is less clear f...
Users of 3D desktop applications perform tasks that require accessing data storage, moving objects, and navigation. These operations are typically performed using 2D GUI elements ...
Jeffrey S. Pierce, Matthew Conway, Maarten van Dan...
Manipulating digital video using desktop computers, especially in uncompressed form, and communicating it over networks can be time-consuming because of it large bandwidth require...
This paper examines the feasibility of performing architectural studies with trace sampling for a suite of desktop application traces on Windows NT. This paper makes three contrib...
We analyze the I/O behavior of iBench, a new collection of productivity and multimedia application workloads. Our analysis reveals a number of differences between iBench and typic...
Tyler Harter, Chris Dragga, Michael Vaughn, Andrea...