In recent software transactional memory proposals, a contention manager module is responsible for ensuring that the system as a whole makes progress. A number of contention manage...
There have been many debates about the feasibility of providing guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) when network traffic travels beyond the enterprise domain and into the vast unk...
We propose and evaluate two complementary techniques to protect and virtualize a tightly-coupled network interface in a multicomputer. The techniques allow efficient, direct appli...
Kenneth Mackenzie, John Kubiatowicz, Matthew Frank...
Abstract--The networked application environment has motivated the development of multitasking operating systems for sensor networks and other low-power electronic devices, but thei...
In this paper we introduce the ConSet communication model for distributed memory parallel computers. The communication needs of an application program can be satisfied by some ar...