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SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
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An Analytic Behavior Model for Disk Drives with Readahead Caches and Request Reordering
Modern disk drives read-ahead data and reorder incoming requests in a workload-dependent fashion. This improves their performance, but makes simple analytical models of them inade...
Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilke...
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PVM
1998
Springer
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SKaMPI: A Detailed, Accurate MPI Benchmark
Abstract. SKaMPI is a benchmark for MPI implementations. Its purpose is the detailed analysis of the runtime of individual MPI operations and comparison of these for di erent imple...
Ralf Reussner, Peter Sanders, Lutz Prechelt, Matth...
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PPOPP
1997
ACM
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Effective Fine-Grain Synchronization for Automatically Parallelized Programs Using Optimistic Synchronization Primitives
As shared-memory multiprocessors become the dominant commodity source of computation, parallelizing compilers must support mainstream computations that manipulate irregular, point...
Martin C. Rinard
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ISCA
1996
IEEE
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Coherent Network Interfaces for Fine-Grain Communication
Historically, processor accesses to memory-mapped device registers have been marked uncachable to insure their visibility to the device. The ubiquity of snooping cache coherence, ...
Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Babak Falsafi, Mark D. Hil...
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ISPW
1996
IEEE
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Feedback, evolution and software technology
A 1968 study of the software process led, inter alia, to the observation that the software process constitutes a feedback system. Attempts at its management and improvement must t...
M. M. Lehman