Memory transactions, similar to database transactions, allow a programmer to focus on the logic of their program and let the system ensure that transactions are atomic and isolate...
Haris Volos, Andres Jaan Tack, Neelam Goyal, Micha...
Software updates typically require stopping and restarting an application, but many systems cannot afford to halt service, or would prefer not to. Dynamic software updating (DSU) ...
Iulian Neamtiu, Michael W. Hicks, Gareth Stoyle, M...
This paper reports our experiences on the Scalable Network Of Workstation (SNOW) project, which implements a novel methodology to support user-level process migration for traditio...
The NVIDIA® OptiX™ ray tracing engine is a programmable system designed for NVIDIA GPUs and other highly parallel architectures. The OptiX engine builds on the key observation ...
Steven G. Parker, James Bigler, Andreas Dietrich, ...
Active libraries can be defined as libraries which play an active part in the compilation, in particular, the optimisation of their client code. This paper explores the implement...
Francis P. Russell, Michael R. Mellor, Paul H. J. ...