This paper quantifies the effect of architectural design decisions on the performance of TxLinux. TxLinux is a Linux kernel modified to use transactions in place of locking primit...
Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E...
—Bulk memory copying and initialization is one of the most ubiquitous operations performed in current computer systems by both user applications and Operating Systems. While many...
Xiaowei Jiang, Yan Solihin, Li Zhao, Ravishankar I...
Memory trace analysis is an important technology for architecture research, system software (i.e., OS, compiler) optimization, and application performance improvements. Many appro...
Yungang Bao, Mingyu Chen, Yuan Ruan, Li Liu, Jianp...
Abstract. Device drivers often keep data in multiple data structures simultaneously while embedding list or tree related records into the records containing the actual data; this r...
Multi-core processors are planned for virtually all next-generation HPC systems. In a preliminary evaluation of AMD Opteron Dual-Core processor systems, we investigated the scaling...
Sadaf R. Alam, Richard F. Barrett, Jeffery A. Kueh...