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 ...
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...
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....
Smartphones represent one of the fastest growing markets, providing significant hardware/software improvements every few months. However, supporting these capabilities reduces the...
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