Wide-area distributed applications are challenging to debug, optimize, and maintain. We present Wide-Area Project 5 (WAP5), which aims to make these tasks easier by exposing the c...
Patrick Reynolds, Janet L. Wiener, Jeffrey C. Mogu...
The traditional approach for characterizing complex systems is to run standard workloads and measure the resulting performance as seen by the end user. However, unique opportuniti...
Haryadi S. Gunawi, Nitin Agrawal, Andrea C. Arpaci...
In a ubiquitous computing environment, users continuously access computing services and interact with smart spaces, while moving from one place to another. Application migration, t...
Pauline P. L. Siu, Nalini Moti Belaramani, Cho-Li ...
This paper evaluates the performance of three popular versions of the UNIX operating system on the x86 architecture: Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. We evaluate the systems using fre...
During code review tasks, comparing two versions of a hardware design description using existing program differencing tools such as diff is inherently limited because existing p...