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ASAP
2009
IEEE
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16 years 1 months ago
NeMo: A Platform for Neural Modelling of Spiking Neurons Using GPUs
—Simulating spiking neural networks is of great interest to scientists wanting to model the functioning of the brain. However, large-scale models are expensive to simulate due to...
Andreas Fidjeland, Etienne B. Roesch, Murray Shana...
ICDCS
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
The Taming of the Shrew: Mitigating Low-Rate TCP-Targeted Attack
A Shrew attack, which uses a low-rate burst carefully designed to exploit TCP’s retransmission timeout mechanism, can throttle the bandwidth of a TCP flow in a stealthy manner....
Chia-Wei Chang, Seungjoon Lee, B. Lin, Jia Wang
ICDCS
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
FlashLite: A User-Level Library to Enhance Durability of SSD for P2P File Sharing
Peer-to-peer file sharing is popular, but it generates random write traffic to storage due to the nature of swarming. NAND flash memory based Solid-State Drive (SSD) technology...
Hyojun Kim, Umakishore Ramachandran
EUROSYS
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Delay Scheduling: A Simple Technique for Achieving Locality and Fairness in Cluster Scheduling
As organizations start to use data-intensive cluster computing systems like Hadoop and Dryad for more applications, there is a growing need to share clusters between users. Howeve...
Matei Zaharia, Dhruba Borthakur, Joydeep Sen Sarma...
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OZCHI
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Using a multi-touch tabletop for upper extremity motor rehabilitation
Millions of people in Canada have impairments that result in a loss of function and directly affect their ability to carry out activities of daily living. Many individuals with di...
Michelle Annett, Fraser Anderson, Darrell Goertzen...