—Various studies have pointed out the debilitating effects of OS Jitter on the performance of parallel applications on large clusters such as the ASCI Purple and the Mare Nostrum...
In this paper, we discuss the use of Targeted Trajectory Distribution Markov Decision Processes (TTD-MDPs)—a variant of MDPs in which the goal is to realize a specified distrib...
Sooraj Bhat, David L. Roberts, Mark J. Nelson, Cha...
Current shared memory multicore and multiprocessor systems are nondeterministic. Each time these systems execute a multithreaded application, even if supplied with the same input,...
Joseph Devietti, Brandon Lucia, Luis Ceze, Mark Os...
There is a fair amount of evidence that mesh (static multihop wireless) networks are gaining popularity, both in the academic literature and in the commercial space. Nonetheless, ...
Jakob Eriksson, Sharad Agarwal, Paramvir Bahl, Jit...
The use of bit-patterned media is one of the approaches being investigated to extend magnetic recording densities to 1 Tbit/in2 and beyond. In patterned media, track pitch may be s...