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IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Making lockless synchronization fast: performance implications of memory reclamation
Achieving high performance for concurrent applications on modern multiprocessors remains challenging. Many programmers avoid locking to improve performance, while others replace l...
Thomas E. Hart, Paul E. McKenney, Angela Demke Bro...
IJHPCN
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Implications of application usage characteristics for collective communication offload
Abstract-- The performance of collective communication operations is known to have a significant impact on the scalability of some applications. Indeed, the global, synchronous nat...
Ron Brightwell, Sue Goudy, Arun Rodrigues, Keith D...
PUC
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Mobile map interactions during a rendezvous: exploring the implications of automation
Abstract Location awareness can help facilitate a rendezvous of two or more persons. To further enhance the rendezvous experience, we conducted two complementary field studies to ...
David Dearman, Kori M. Inkpen, Khai N. Truong
PPOPP
1997
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Performance Implications of Communication Mechanisms in All-Software Global Address Space Systems
Global addressing of shared data simplifies parallel programming and complements message passing models commonly found in distributed memory machines. A number of programming sys...
Beng-Hong Lim, Chi-Chao Chang, Grzegorz Czajkowski...
HT
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Feral hypertext: when hypertext literature escapes control
This paper presents a historical view of hypertext looking at preweb hypertext as a domesticated species bred in captivity, and arguing that on the web, some breeds of hypertext h...
Jill Walker