We consider the impact of different communication architectures on the performability (performance + availability) of cluster-based servers. In particular, we use a combination of ...
—A significant percentage of online content is now published and consumed via the mechanism of crowdsourcing. While any user can contribute to these forums, a disproportionately...
Fang Wu, Dennis M. Wilkinson, Bernardo A. Huberman
Fault injection, a critical aspect of testing robust systems, is often overlooked in the development of generalpurpose software. We believe this is due to the absence of easy-to-u...
—With increasing numbers of cores, future CMPs (Chip Multi-Processors) are likely to have a tiled architecture with a portion of shared L2 cache on each tile and a bankinterleave...
Most modern microprocessor-based systems provide support for superpages both at the hardware and software level. Judicious use of superpages can significantly cut down the number...