Increasingly, systems are composed from independently developed parts, and mechanisms that allow those parts to interact (connectors). In many situations, specialized forms of int...
— This paper presents a tool, the Performance Model Manager, which addresses the complexity of the construction and management of a set of Functional Performance Models on a comp...
Abstract Distributed Systems suffer from the enormous performance gap between local and remote operation. To bridge this gap a general purpose distributed operating system must pr...
The Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) is an industry standard user-level communication architecture for system area networks. The VIA provides a protected, directlyaccessible i...
Low-overhead message passing is critical to the performance of many applications. Active Messages[27] reduce the software overhead for message handling: messages are run as handle...
Deborah A. Wallach, Wilson C. Hsieh, Kirk L. Johns...