Even with todays hardware improvements, performance problems are still common in many software systems. An approach to tackle this problem for component-based software architectur...
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...
Chip multi-processors (CMP) are rapidly emerging as an important design paradigm for both high performance and embedded processors. These machines provide an important performance...
Alex Settle, Dan Connors, Enric Gibert, Antonio Go...
: Nowadays, while large-sized multimedia objects are becoming very popular throughout the Internet, one of the important issues appears to be the acceleration of content delivery n...
An experimental study compared the performance of a real-life HTML application and an AJAX application that implemented the same user interface. A statistically significant number ...
The performance of peer-to-peer systems depends on the level of cooperation of the system's participants. While most existing peer-to-peer architectures have assumed that user...
As chip multiprocessor (CMP) has become the mainstream in processor architectures, Intel and AMD have introduced their dual-core processors. In this paper, performance measurement...
Lu Peng, Jih-Kwon Peir, Tribuvan K. Prakash, Carl ...
Modern day applications require use of multi-processor systems for reasons of performance, scalability and power efficiency. As more and more applications are integrated in a sing...
Akash Kumar, Bart Mesman, Bart D. Theelen, Henk Co...
CPU utilization, throughput, turnaround time, waiting time, and response time are the factor to influence system performance. Every system uses different scheduling algorithms to a...
Homer Wu, Chong-Yen Lee, Wuu-Yee Chen, Tsang-Yean ...
The best performing algorithms for a particular oversubscribed scheduling application, Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) scheduling, appear to have little in common. Yet...
Laura Barbulescu, Adele E. Howe, L. Darrell Whitle...