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ASPLOS
2012
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Aikido: accelerating shared data dynamic analyses
Despite a burgeoning demand for parallel programs, the tools available to developers working on shared-memory multicore processors have lagged behind. One reason for this is the l...
Marek Olszewski, Qin Zhao, David Koh, Jason Ansel,...
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
SkewTune: mitigating skew in mapreduce applications
We present an automatic skew mitigation approach for userdefined MapReduce programs and present SkewTune, a system that implements this approach as a drop-in replacement for an e...
YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazinska, Bill Howe, Je...
TSE
2012
13 years 9 months ago
Does Software Process Improvement Reduce the Severity of Defects? A Longitudinal Field Study
— As firms increasingly rely on information systems to perform critical functions the consequences of software defects can be catastrophic. Although the software engineering lite...
Donald E. Harter, Chris F. Kemerer, Sandra Slaught...
HPCA
1999
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Comparative Evaluation of Fine- and Coarse-Grain Approaches for Software Distributed Shared Memory
Symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs) connected with low-latency networks provide attractive building blocks for software distributed shared memory systems. Two distinct approaches hav...
Sandhya Dwarkadas, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Leonidas ...
OSDI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Gadara: Dynamic Deadlock Avoidance for Multithreaded Programs
Deadlock is an increasingly pressing concern as the multicore revolution forces parallel programming upon the average programmer. Existing approaches to deadlock impose onerous bu...
Manjunath Kudlur, Scott A. Mahlke, Stéphane...