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USENIX
2000
15 years 6 months ago
Malloc() Performance in a Multithreaded Linux Environment
Network servers make special demands that other types of applications may not make on memory allocators. We describe a simple malloc() microbenchmark suite that tests the ability ...
Chuck Lever, David Boreham
SOSP
1997
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Cashmere-2L: Software Coherent Shared Memory on a Clustered Remote-Write Network
Low-latency remote-write networks, such as DEC’s Memory Channel, provide the possibility of transparent, inexpensive, large-scale shared-memory parallel computing on clusters of...
Robert Stets, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Nikos Hardavellas...
HPCA
2011
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Calvin: Deterministic or not? Free will to choose
Most shared memory systems maximize performance by unpredictably resolving memory races. Unpredictable memory races can lead to nondeterminism in parallel programs, which can suff...
Derek Hower, Polina Dudnik, Mark D. Hill, David A....
ISCA
2012
IEEE
262views Hardware» more  ISCA 2012»
13 years 7 months ago
Boosting mobile GPU performance with a decoupled access/execute fragment processor
Smartphones represent one of the fastest growing markets, providing significant hardware/software improvements every few months. However, supporting these capabilities reduces the...
Jose-Maria Arnau, Joan-Manuel Parcerisa, Polychron...
SOSP
2003
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Implementing an untrusted operating system on trusted hardware
Recently, there has been considerable interest in providing “trusted computing platforms” using hardware — TCPA and Palladium being the most publicly visible examples. In th...
David Lie, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Mark Horowitz