Abstract. Real-world measurements play an important role in understanding the characteristics and in improving the operation of BitTorrent, which is currently a popular Internet ap...
Boxun Zhang, Alexandru Iosup, Johan A. Pouwelse, D...
This work presents an application case study. Geant4 is a 750,000 line toolkit first designed in the mid-1990s and originally intended only for sequential computation. Intel's...
Mutual exclusion locks limit concurrency but offer low latency. Software transactional memory (STM) typically has higher latency, but scales well. In this paper we propose transac...
Luke Dalessandro, David Dice, Michael L. Scott, Ni...
Abstract. Current trends in CMPs indicate that the core count will increase in the near future. One of the main performance limiters of these forthcoming microarchitectures is the ...
Abstract. Limited bandwidth to off-chip main memory is a performance bottleneck in chip multiprocessors for streaming computations, such as Cell/B.E., and this will become even mor...