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ISPASS
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Improved stride prefetching using extrinsic stream characteristics
Stride-based prefetching mechanisms exploit regular streams of memory accesses to hide memory latency. While these mechanisms are effective, they can be improved by studying the p...
Hassan Al-Sukhni, James Holt, Daniel A. Connors
LISA
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Three Practical Ways to Improve Your Network
This paper presents three simple techniques for improving network service using relatively unknown features of many existing networks. The resulting system provides greater reliab...
Kevin Miller
IMC
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Improving content delivery using provider-aided distance information
Content delivery systems constitute a major portion of today's Internet traffic. While they are a good source of revenue for Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the huge volum...
Ingmar Poese, Benjamin Frank, Bernhard Ager, Georg...
IPPS
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Taking the heat off transactions: Dynamic selection of pessimistic concurrency control
In this paper we investigate feedback-directed dynamic selection between different implementations of atomic blocks. We initially execute atomic blocks using STM with optimistic c...
Nehir Sönmez, Tim Harris, Adrián Crist...
ARCS
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Improving Memory Subsystem Performance Using ViVA: Virtual Vector Architecture
The disparity between microprocessor clock frequencies and memory latency is a primary reason why many demanding applications run well below peak achievable performance. Software c...
Joseph Gebis, Leonid Oliker, John Shalf, Samuel Wi...