Abstract. A long-running transaction is an interactive component of a distributed system which must be executed as if it were a single atomic action. In principle, it should not be...
This paper describes a new force directed global placement algorithm that exploits and extends techniques from two leading placers, Force-directed [12] [26] and Mongrel [22]. It c...
Material design is the process by which artists specify the reflectance
properties of a surface, such as its diffuse color and specular
roughness. We present a user study to eval...
Toprogrammassivelyconcurrent MIMDmachines, programmersneed tools for managingcomplexity. One important tool that has been used in the sequential programmingworld is hierarchies of...
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, ...