Understanding why the performance of a multithreaded program does not improve linearly with the number of cores in a sharedmemory node populated with one or more multicore process...
Counter Abstraction for Concurrent Software G?erard Basler1 , Michele Mazzucchi1 , Thomas Wahl1,2 , Daniel Kroening1,2 1 Computer Systems Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 2 Compu...
The number of functional errors escaping design verification and being released into final silicon is growing, due to the increasing complexity and shrinking production schedules ...
Continuously running systems require kernel software updates applied to them without downtime. Facilitating fast reboots, or delaying an update may not be a suitable solution in m...
— Embedded processors are required to achieve high performance while running on batteries. Thus, they must exploit all the possible means available to reduce energy consumption w...