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KIVS
1999
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Mobile Agents as an Architectural Concept for Internet-Based Distributed Applications - The WASP Project Approach
Abstract. After introducing the concept of mobile agents and potential application domains, we motivate why mobile agent technology is an interesting concept for large Internet-bas...
Stefan Fünfrocken, Friedemann Mattern
PPOPP
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Safe open-nested transactions through ownership
Researchers in transactional memory (TM) have proposed open nesting as a methodology for increasing the concurrency of transactional programs. The idea is to ignore "low-leve...
Kunal Agrawal, I.-Ting Angelina Lee, Jim Sukha
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Dingo: taming device drivers
Device drivers are notorious for being a major source of failure in operating systems. In analysing a sample of real defects in Linux drivers, we found that a large proportion (39...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Peter Chubb, Ihor Kuz, Gernot Heise...
PPOPP
2005
ACM
16 years 4 days ago
Exposing speculative thread parallelism in SPEC2000
As increasing the performance of single-threaded processors becomes increasingly difficult, consumer desktop processors are moving toward multi-core designs. One way to enhance th...
Manohar K. Prabhu, Kunle Olukotun
ICS
2005
Tsinghua U.
16 years 2 days ago
Disk layout optimization for reducing energy consumption
Excessive power consumption is becoming a major barrier to extracting the maximum performance from high-performance parallel systems. Therefore, techniques oriented towards reduci...
Seung Woo Son, Guangyu Chen, Mahmut T. Kandemir