Abstract. The degree of locality of a program re ects the level of temporal and spatial concentration of related data and computations. Locality optimization can speed up programs ...
Abstract. Previously published methods for estimation of the worstcase execution time on contemporary processors with complex pipelines and multi-level memory hierarchies result in...
Most database systems (DBMSs) today are operating on servers equipped with magnetic disks. In our contribution, we want to motivate the use of two emerging and striking technologi...
Abstract--This paper proposes an analytical model to estimate the cost of running an affinity-based thread schedule on multicore systems. The model consists of three submodels to e...
Exception handling is a powerful abstraction that can be used to help manage errors and support the construction of reliable operating systems. Using exceptions to notify system co...
Francis M. David, Jeffrey C. Carlyle, Ellick Chan,...