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SIGMETRICS
1997
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
File System Aging - Increasing the Relevance of File System Benchmarks
Benchmarks are important because they provide a means for users and researchers to characterize how their workloads will perform on different systems and different system architec...
Keith A. Smith, Margo I. Seltzer
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
The cost of interrupted work: more speed and stress
We performed an empirical study to investigate whether the context of interruptions makes a difference. We found that context does not make a difference but surprisingly, people c...
Gloria Mark, Daniela Gudith, Ulrich Klocke
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
UNIFORM: automatically generating consistent remote control user interfaces
A problem with many of today's appliance interfaces is that they are inconsistent. For example, the procedure for setting the time on alarm clocks and VCRs differs, even amon...
Jeffrey Nichols, Brad A. Myers, Brandon Rothrock
HPCA
2003
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Variability in Architectural Simulations of Multi-Threaded Workloads
Multi-threaded commercial workloads implement many important internet services. Consequently, these workloads are increasingly used to evaluate the performance of uniprocessor and...
Alaa R. Alameldeen, David A. Wood
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Task activity vectors: a new metric for temperature-aware scheduling
Non-uniform utilization of functional units in combination with hardware mechanisms such as clock gating leads to different power consumptions in different parts of a processor ch...
Andreas Merkel, Frank Bellosa