Virtual execution environments have become increasingly useful in system implementation, with dynamic translation techniques being an important component for performance-critical ...
Abstract--The now commonplace multi-core chips have introduced, by design, a deep hierarchy of memory and cache banks within parallel computers as a tradeoff between the user frien...
JuxtaView is a cluster-based application for viewing ultra-high-resolution images on scalable tiled displays. We present in JuxtaView, a new parallel computing and distributed mem...
Naveen K. Krishnaprasad, Venkatram Vishwanath, Sha...
On machines with high-performance processors, the memory system continues to be a performance bottleneck. Compilers insert prefetch operations and reorder data accesses to improve...
Nathaniel McIntosh, Sandya Mannarswamy, Robert Hun...
To offset the significant power demands of hard disk drives in computer systems, drives are typically powered down during idle periods. This saves power, but accelerates duty cyc...
Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Lon...