RV
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2010
Springer
One of the major productivity hurdles for parallel programming is non-determinism -- a parallel program may yield different results on different executions with the same input, dep...
PTS
2010
13 years 4 months ago
2010
The addition of a cross-cutting concern in a program, through aspect weaving, has an impact on its existing behaviors. If test cases exist for the program, it is necessary to ident...
PTS
2010
13 years 4 months ago
2010
We present a novel algorithm for test data generation that is based on techniques used in formal software verification. Prominent examples of such formal techniques are symbolic ex...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2010
IEEE
A particularly insidious type of concurrency bug is atomicity violations. While there has been substantial work on automatic detection of atomicity violations, each existing techn...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2010
IEEE
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2010
IEEE
Current trends signal an imminent crisis in the simulation of future CMPs (Chip MultiProcessors). Future micro-architectures will offer more and more thread contexts to execute pa...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2010
IEEE
High density memory is becoming more important as many execution streams are consolidated onto single chip many-core processors. DRAM is ubiquitous as a main memory technology, but...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2010
IEEE
As technology scaling poses a threat to DRAM scaling due to physical limitations such as limited charge, alternative memory technologies including several emerging non-volatile me...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2010
IEEE
Energy efficiency is a primary concern for microprocessor designers. A very effective approach to improving the energy efficiency of a chip is to lower its supply voltage to very ...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2010
IEEE
The ever-increasing importance of main memory latency and bandwidth is pushing CMPs towards caches with higher capacity and associativity. Associativity is typically improved by in...