Abstract. This paper presents a case study on retrospective verication of the Linux Virtual File System (VFS), which is aimed at checking for violations of API usage rules and mem...
Recently, industry has begun investigating and moving towards utility computing, where computational resources (processing, memory and I/O) are availably on demand at a market cos...
The demand for real-time data services in embedded systems is increasing. In these new computing platforms, using traditional buffer management schemes, whose goal is to minimize ...
The significant speed-gap between processor and memory and the limited chip memory bandwidth make last-level cache performance crucial for future chip multiprocessors. To use the...
Abstract. Prefetching transfers a data item in advance from its storage location to its usage location so that communication is hidden and does not delay computation. We present a ...
Michael Klemm, Jean Christophe Beyler, Ronny T. La...