Chip-multiprocessors are quickly gaining momentum in all segments of computing. However, the practical success of CMPs strongly depends on addressing the difficulty of multithread...
Sewook Wee, Jared Casper, Njuguna Njoroge, Yuriy T...
There is a growing demand for network devices capable of examining the content of data packets in order to improve network security and provide application-specific services. Most...
Low-end embedded architectures, such as sensor nodes, have become popular in diverse fields, many of which impose real-time constraints. Currently, the Atmel Atmega processor fam...
Sibin Mohan, Frank Mueller, David B. Whalley, Chri...
Silicon technology will continue to provide an exponential increase in the availability of raw transistors. Effectively translating this resource into application performance, how...
Steven Swanson, Ken Michelson, Andrew Schwerin, Ma...
The existing thread scheduler in FreeBSD was well suited towards the computing environment that it was developed in. As the priorities and hardware targets of the project have cha...