In defining large, complex access control policies, one would like to compose sub-policies, perhaps authored by different organizations, into a single global policy. Existing po...
Convenience, reliability, and effectiveness of automatic memory management have long been established in modern systems and programming languages such as Java. The timeliness req...
As semiconductor processing technology continues to scale down, managing reliability becomes an increasingly difficult challenge in high-performance microprocessor design. Transie...
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...
Helper threading is a technique that utilizes a second core or logical processor in a multi-threaded system to improve the performance of the main thread. A helper thread executes...