Dynamic languages such as Javascript are the de-facto standard for web applications. However, generating efficient code for dynamically-typed languages is a challenge, because it...
Owen Anderson, Emily Fortuna, Luis Ceze, Susan Egg...
A non-trivial challenge in high performance, cluster computing is the communication overhead introduced by the cluster interconnect. A common strategy for addressing this challeng...
Anthony Danalis, Aaron Brown, Lori L. Pollock, D. ...
Data prefetching has been widely used in the past as a technique for hiding memory access latencies. However, data prefetching in multi-threaded applications running on chip multi...
Dhruva Chakrabarti, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Mustafa Ka...
In this paper, we quantify the adverse effect of file sharing on the performance of reliable distributed applications. We demonstrate that file sharing incurs significant overhead...