Clusters of commodity machines have become a popular way of building cheap high performance parallel computers. Many of these designs rely on standard Ethernet networks as a syste...
Francis Vaughan, Duncan A. Grove, Paul D. Coddingt...
—Given limited resource and time before software release, development-site testing and debugging become more and more insufficient to ensure satisfactory software performance. As...
Shi Han, Yingnong Dang, Song Ge, Dongmei Zhang, Ta...
Repository-based revision control systems such as CVS, RCS, Subversion, and GIT, are extremely useful tools that enable software developers to concurrently modify source code, man...
Perhaps surprisingly, no practical performance models exist for popular (and complex) client applications such as Adobe’s Creative Suite, Microsoft’s Office and Visual Studio...
Eno Thereska, Bjoern Doebel, Alice X. Zheng, Peter...
As we reach the limits of single-core computing, we are promised more and more cores in our systems. Modern architectures include many performance counters per core, but few or no...
Paul E. West, Yuval Peress, Gary S. Tyson, Sally A...