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HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Address-branch correlation: A novel locality for long-latency hard-to-predict branches
Hard-to-predict branches depending on longlatency cache-misses have been recognized as a major performance obstacle for modern microprocessors. With the widening speed gap between...
Hongliang Gao, Yi Ma, Martin Dimitrov, Huiyang Zho...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Dingo: taming device drivers
Device drivers are notorious for being a major source of failure in operating systems. In analysing a sample of real defects in Linux drivers, we found that a large proportion (39...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Peter Chubb, Ihor Kuz, Gernot Heise...
IPPS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Taking the heat off transactions: Dynamic selection of pessimistic concurrency control
In this paper we investigate feedback-directed dynamic selection between different implementations of atomic blocks. We initially execute atomic blocks using STM with optimistic c...
Nehir Sönmez, Tim Harris, Adrián Crist...
WABI
2009
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Constructing Majority-Rule Supertrees
Background: Supertree methods combine the phylogenetic information from multiple partially-overlapping trees into a larger phylogenetic tree called a supertree. Several supertree ...
Jianrong Dong, David Fernández-Baca, Fred R...
ISEUD
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Improving Documentation for eSOA APIs through User Studies
All software today is written using libraries, toolkits, frameworks and other application programming interfaces (APIs). We performed a user study of the online documentation a lar...
Sae Young Jeong, Yingyu Xie, Jack Beaton, Brad A. ...