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ICS
1999
Tsinghua U.
14 years 4 months ago
Improving the performance of speculatively parallel applications on the Hydra CMP
Hydra is a chip multiprocessor (CMP) with integrated support for thread-level speculation. Thread-level speculation provides a way to parallelize sequential programs without the n...
Kunle Olukotun, Lance Hammond, Mark Willey
IWCC
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A High Performance Communication Subsystem for PODOS
PODOS is a performance oriented distributed operating system being developed to harness the performance capabilities of a cluster computing environment. In order to address the gr...
Sudharshan Vazhkudai, P. Tobin Maginnis
CIKM
1999
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Training a Selection Function for Extraction
In this paper we compare performance of several heuristics in generating informative generic/query-oriented extracts for newspaper articles in order to learn how topic prominence ...
Chin-Yew Lin
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
SCALA: A Framework for Performance Evaluation of Scalable Computing
Abstract. Conventional performance environments are based on pro ling and event instrumentation. It becomes problematic as parallel systems scale to hundreds of nodes and beyond. A...
Xian-He Sun, Mario Pantano, Thomas Fahringer, Zhao...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Linear Aggressive Prefetching: A Way to Increase the Performance of Cooperative Caches
Cooperative caches offer huge amounts of caching memory that is not always used as well as it could be. We might find blocks in the cache that have not been requested for many hou...
Toni Cortes, Jesús Labarta
INFOCOM
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Performance Characteristics of Mirror Servers on the Internet
Abstract--As a growing number of web sites introduce mirrors to increase throughput, the challenge for clients becomes determining which mirror will offer the best performance when...
Andy Myers, Peter A. Dinda, Hui Zhang
HCW
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Communication Modeling of Heterogeneous Networks of Workstations for Performance Characterization of Collective Operations
: Networks of Workstations (NOW) have become an attractive alternative platform for high performance computing. Due to the commodity nature of workstations and interconnects and du...
Mohammad Banikazemi, Jayanthi Sampathkumar, Sandee...
APLAS
2000
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A New Criterion for Safe Program Transformations
Previous studies on safety of program transformations with respect to performance considered two criteria: preserving performance within a constant factor and preserving complexit...
Yasuhiko Minamide
ACMDIS
2000
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Performance Targets, Models and Innovation in Interactive System Design
This paper presents an approach to designing interactive systems that enables critical performance parameters to be identified and models of performance to be constructed. The met...
William M. Newman, Alex S. Taylor, Christopher R. ...
LCN
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Performance Impact of Data Compression on Virtual Private Network Transactions
Virtual private networks (VPNs) allow two or more parties to communicate securely over a public network. Using cryptographic algorithms and protocols, VPNs provide security servic...
John Patrick McGregor, Ruby B. Lee