Maintenance is the dominant source of downtime at high availability sites. Unfortunately, the dominant mechanism for reducing this downtime, cluster rolling upgrade, has two short...
Undergraduate operating systems courses are generally taught e of two approaches: abstract or concrete. In the approach, students learn the concepts underlying operating systems t...
David Hovemeyer, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Bobby B...
Cache behavior modeling is an important part of modern optimizing compilers. In this paper we present a method to estimate the number of cache misses, at compile time, using a mac...
Formal analysis remains outside the mainstream of system design practice. Interactive methods and tools are regarded by some to be on the margin of useful research in this area. Al...
As DRAM access latencies approach a thousand instructionexecution times and on-chip caches grow to multiple megabytes, it is not clear that conventional cache structures continue ...