While it is widely believed that preemptability is a necessary requirement for developing real-time software, there are additional costs involved with preemptive scheduling, as co...
Abstract Oliver Diessel1 and Hossam ElGindy2 1Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering 2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of Newcastle...
As symmetric multiprocessors become commonplace, the interconnection networks and the communication system software in clusters of multiprocessors become critical to achieving high...
Ying Qian, Ahmad Afsahi, Nathan R. Fredrickson, Re...
Over the past years, the computing industry has started various initiatives announced to increase computer security by means of new hardware architectures. The most notable effort...
Today's transactional memory systems implement the two-phase-locking (2PL) algorithm which aborts transactions every time a conflict happens. 2PL is a simple algorithm that pr...