High-level languages are growing in popularity. However, decades of C software development have produced large libraries of fast, timetested, meritorious code that are impractical...
Tristan Ravitch, Steve Jackson, Eric Aderhold, Ben...
The primary goal of exception mechanisms is to help ensure that when an operation fails, code that depends on the operation's successful completion is not executed (a property...
Although chip-multiprocessors have become the industry standard, developing parallel applications that target them remains a daunting task. Non-determinism, inherent in threaded a...
Marek Olszewski, Jason Ansel, Saman P. Amarasinghe
: The challenges in nano-CMOS circuit design include the following: variability, leakage, power, thermals, reliability, and yield. This talk will focus on interdependent considerat...
Understanding why the performance of a multithreaded program does not improve linearly with the number of cores in a sharedmemory node populated with one or more multicore process...