Caching techniques have been used to improve the performance gap of storage hierarchies in computing systems. In data intensive applications that access large data files over wid...
Estimating the maximum power and thermal characteristics of a processor is essential for designing its power delivery system, packaging, cooling, and power/thermal management sche...
Ajay M. Joshi, Lieven Eeckhout, Lizy Kurian John, ...
Virtualization and consolidation are two complementary techniques widely adopted in a global strategy to reduce system management complexity. In this paper we show how two simple ...
—We address the recently recognized privatization problem in software transactional memory (STM) runtimes, and introduce the notion of partially visible reads (PVRs) to heuristic...
Virendra J. Marathe, Michael F. Spear, Michael L. ...
— The complexity of today’s computer systems poses a challenge to system administrators. Current systems comprise a multitude of inter-related software components running on di...