Message-passing mechanism is commonly used to preserve data coherency in distributed systems. This paper presents an algorithm for insertion of minimal message-passing in system-l...
The world-wide-web does not support referential integrity, i.e. dangling references do exist. This can be very annoying; in particular, if a user pays for some service in the form...
Java's automatic memory management is the main reason that prevents Java from being used in hard realtime environments. We present the garbage collection mechanism that is us...
Alewife is a multiprocessor architecture that supports up to 512 processing nodes connected over a scalable and cost-effective mesh network at a constant cost per node. The MIT Al...
Anant Agarwal, Ricardo Bianchini, David Chaiken, K...
Software-controlled cache prefetching and data forwarding are widely used techniques for tolerating memory latency in shared memory multiprocessors. However, some previous studies...