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ICPP
1995
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Impact of Load Imbalance on the Design of Software Barriers
Software barriers have been designed and evaluated for barrier synchronization in large-scale shared-memory multiprocessors, under the assumption that all processorsreach the sync...
Alexandre E. Eichenberger, Santosh G. Abraham
MICRO
2012
IEEE
231views Hardware» more  MICRO 2012»
11 years 10 months ago
What is Happening to Power, Performance, and Software?
The past 10 years have delivered two significant revolutions. (1) Microprocessor design has been transformed by the limits of chip power, wire latency, and Dennard scaling—leadi...
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Ting Cao, Xi Yang, Stephen Blac...
EDO
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Component Metadata for Software Engineering Tasks
Abstract. This paper presents a framework that lets a component developer provide a component user with different kinds of information, depending on the specific context and needs....
Alessandro Orso, Mary Jean Harrold, David S. Rosen...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Scalable Techniques for Transparent Privatization in Software Transactional Memory
—We address the recently recognized privatization problem in software transactional memory (STM) runtimes, and introduce the notion of partially visible reads (PVRs) to heuristic...
Virendra J. Marathe, Michael F. Spear, Michael L. ...
ICS
1999
Tsinghua U.
14 years 4 days ago
Reducing cache misses using hardware and software page placement
As the gap between memory and processor speeds continues to widen, cache efficiency is an increasingly important component of processor performance. Compiler techniques have been...
Timothy Sherwood, Brad Calder, Joel S. Emer