From home improvement to scrapbooking, leisure activities performed “by hand” increasingly involve digital tools. In turn, software and devices to support handwork are prolife...
In this paper, we illustrate a model-based approach to Web server performance evaluation, and present an analytic queueing model of Web servers in distributed environments. Perfor...
Abstract—Significant achievements have been made for automated allocation of cloud resources. However, the performance of applications may be poor in peak load periods, unless t...
Nicolas Bonvin, Thanasis G. Papaioannou, Karl Aber...
Chip multiprocessors (CMPs) are expected to be the building blocks for future computer systems. While architecting these emerging CMPs is a challenging problem on its own, program...
Ozcan Ozturk, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Mary Jane Irwin,...
Two decades of microprocessor architecture driven by quantitative 90/10 optimization has delivered an extraordinary 1000-fold improvement in microprocessor performance, enabled by...