—Various studies have pointed out the debilitating effects of OS Jitter on the performance of parallel applications on large clusters such as the ASCI Purple and the Mare Nostrum...
Caches are notorious for their unpredictability. It is difficult or even impossible to predict if a memory access results in a definite cache hit or miss. This unpredictability i...
This paper presents a European Master programme on Global Software Engineering (SE), being put forward by four leading institutions from Sweden, UK, Netherlands and Italy. The Glo...
Patricia Lago, Henry Muccini, Ljerka Beus-Dukic, I...
Even after carefully tuning the memory characteristics to the application properties and the processor speed, during the execution of real applications there are times when the pr...
Aviral Shrivastava, Eugene Earlie, Nikil D. Dutt, ...
Knowing the Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) of a program is necessary when designing and verifying real-time systems. A correct WCET analysis method must take into account the po...
Andreas Ermedahl, Friedhelm Stappert, Jakob Engblo...