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USENIX
2004
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Making the "Box" Transparent: System Call Performance as a First-Class Result
For operating system intensive applications, the ability of designers to understand system call performance behavior is essential to achieving high performance. Conventional perfo...
Yaoping Ruan, Vivek S. Pai
NAACL
2003
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Evaluating the Evaluation: A Case Study Using the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track
Evaluating competing technologies on a common problem set is a powerful way to improve the state of the art and hasten technology transfer. Yet poorly designed evaluations can was...
Ellen M. Voorhees
DYNAMO
2000
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Derive: a tool that automatically reverse-engineers instruction encodings
Many binary tools, such as disassemblers, dynamiccode generation systems, and executable code rewriters, need to understand how machine instructions are encoded. Unfortunately, sp...
Dawson R. Engler, Wilson C. Hsieh
PPSC
1997
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High-Performance Object-Oriented Scientific Programming in Fortran 90
We illustrate how Fortran 90 supports object-oriented concepts by example of plasma particle computations on the IBM SP. Our experience shows that Fortran 90 and object-oriented m...
Charles D. Norton, Viktor K. Decyk, Boleslaw K. Sz...
USENIX
1993
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The Nachos Instructional Operating System
In teaching operating systems at an undergraduate level, we believe that it is important to provide a project that is realistic enough to show how real operating systems work, yet...
Wayne A. Christopher, Steven J. Procter, Thomas E....