In this paper, we present the results of a comparative evaluation of a "virtual Lego" system against real Lego bricks with novice users. The virtual Lego system was desi...
—With the advent of Cloud computing, large-scale virtualized compute and data centers are becoming common in the computing industry. These distributed systems leverage commodity ...
Gregor von Laszewski, Lizhe Wang, Andrew J. Younge...
Today’s superscalar microprocessors use large, heavily-ported physical register files (RFs) to increase the instruction throughput. The high complexity and power dissipation of ...
Deniz Balkan, Joseph J. Sharkey, Dmitry Ponomarev,...
A popular trend in current software technology is to gain program portability by compiling programs to an inte form based on an abstract machine definition. Such approaches date b...
Abstract. Despite extensive theoretical work on process-calculi, virtual machine specifications and implementations of actual computational models are still scarce. This paper pre...