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TCSV
2002
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15 years 5 months ago
A scalable and programmable architecture for 2-D DWT decoding
The compression of still images by means of the discrete wavelet transform (DWT), adopted in the JPEG-2000 and MPEG-4 standards, is becoming more and more widespread because it yie...
Massimo Ravasi, L. Tenze, Marco Mattavelli
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IPPS
1994
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Scalable Spin Locks for Multiprogrammed Systems
Synchronization primitives for large shared-memory multiprocessors need to minimize latency and contention. Software queue-based locks address these goals, but suffer if a process...
Robert W. Wisniewski, Leonidas I. Kontothanassis, ...
170
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OSDI
1994
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Experiences with Locking in a NUMA Multiprocessor Operating System Kernel
We describe the lockingarchitecture of a new operating system, HURRICANE, designed for large scale shared-memory multiprocessors. Many papers already describe kernel lockingtechni...
Ronald C. Unrau, Orran Krieger, Benjamin Gamsa, Mi...
155
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CLUSTER
2003
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A Performance Comparison of Linux and a Lightweight Kernel
In this paper, we compare running the Linux operating system on the compute nodes of ASCI Red hardware to running a specialized, highly-optimized lightweight kernel (LWK) operatin...
Ron Brightwell, Rolf Riesen, Keith D. Underwood, T...
EUROPAR
2006
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Early Experiences with KTAU on the IBM BG/L
Abstract. The influences of OS and system-specific effects on application performance are increasingly important in high performance computing. In this regard, OS kernel measuremen...
Aroon Nataraj, Allen D. Malony, Alan Morris, Samee...