Many complex systems require the use of floating point arithmetic that is exceedingly time consuming to perform on personal computers. However, floating point operators are also h...
Jason Lee, Lesley Shannon, Matthew J. Yedlin, Gary...
Abstract. On multi-core architectures with software-managed memories, effectively orchestrating data movement is essential to performance, but is tedious and error-prone. In this p...
Lee W. Howes, Anton Lokhmotov, Alastair F. Donalds...
Most operating systems enforce process isolation through hardware protection mechanisms such as memory segmentation, page mapping, and differentiated user and kernel instructions....
This paper proposes new network interface controller (NIC) designs that take advantage of integration with the host CPU to provide increased flexibility for operating system kerne...
Nathan L. Binkert, Ali G. Saidi, Steven K. Reinhar...
In developing a distributed file system, there are several good reasons for implementing the client file cache manager as a user-level process. These include ease of implementatio...
David C. Steere, James J. Kistler, Mahadev Satyana...