Energy conservation without performance degradation is an important goal for battery-operated computers, such as laptops and hand-held assistants. In this paper we determine the p...
Taliver Heath, Eduardo Pinheiro, Jerry Hom, Ulrich...
As Java is emerging as one of the major programming languages in software development, studying how Java applications behave on recent SMT processors is of great interest. This pa...
The Direct Access File System (DAFS) is a distributed file system built on top of direct-access transports (DAT). Direct-access transports are characterized by using remote direct...
Alexandra Fedorova, Margo I. Seltzer, Kostas Magou...
Grid Computing brought the promise of making high-performance computing cheaper and more easily available than traditional supercomputing platforms. Such a promise was very well r...
Flash devices have been widely used in embedded systems, laptop computers, and enterprise servers. However, the poor random writes have been an obstacle to running write-intensive...