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USENIX
1996
13 years 9 months ago
A Performance Comparison of UNIX Operating Systems on the Pentium
This paper evaluates the performance of three popular versions of the UNIX operating system on the x86 architecture: Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. We evaluate the systems using fre...
Kevin Lai, Mary Baker
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Understanding software approaches for GPGPU reliability
Even though graphics processors (GPUs) are becoming increasingly popular for general purpose computing, current (and likely near future) generations of GPUs do not provide hardwar...
Martin Dimitrov, Mike Mantor, Huiyang Zhou
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Conjugate gradient sparse solvers: performance-power characteristics
We characterize the performance and power attributes of the conjugate gradient (CG) sparse solver which is widely used in scientific applications. We use cycle-accurate simulatio...
Konrad Malkowski, Ingyu Lee, Padma Raghavan, Mary ...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Techniques for bandwidth-efficient prefetching of linked data structures in hybrid prefetching systems
Linked data structure (LDS) accesses are critical to the performance of many large scale applications. Techniques have been proposed to prefetch such accesses. Unfortunately, many...
Eiman Ebrahimi, Onur Mutlu, Yale N. Patt
ISCA
2008
IEEE
139views Hardware» more  ISCA 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Atom-Aid: Detecting and Surviving Atomicity Violations
Writing shared-memory parallel programs is error-prone. Among the concurrency errors that programmers often face are atomicity violations, which are especially challenging. They h...
Brandon Lucia, Joseph Devietti, Karin Strauss, Lui...