Despite years of study, branch mispredictions remain as a significant performance impediment in pipelined superscalar processors. In general, the branch misprediction penalty can...
This paper presents FIT, a Flexible open-source binary code Instrumentation Toolkit. Unlike existing tools, FIT is truly portable, with existing backends for the Alpha, x86 and AR...
Bruno De Bus, Dominique Chanet, Bjorn De Sutter, L...
Markov chains have been used to model web usages and served as the basis for statistical testing, performance evaluation, and reliability analysis. However, most of such applicati...
Power-performance optimization is a relatively new problem area particularly in the context of server clusters. Poweraware request distribution is a method of scheduling service r...
As web–based information systems usually run in concurrent environment, the complexity for implementing and testing those systems is significantly high. Therefore it is useful ...