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BSDCON
2003
15 years 8 months ago
ULE: A Modern Scheduler for FreeBSD
The existing thread scheduler in FreeBSD was well suited towards the computing environment that it was developed in. As the priorities and hardware targets of the project have cha...
Jeff Roberson
OSDI
1994
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Storage Alternatives for Mobile Computers
Mobile computers such as notebooks, subnotebooks, and palmtops require low weight, low power consumption, and good interactive performance. These requirements impose many challeng...
Fred Douglis, Ramón Cáceres, M. Fran...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
NapSAC: design and implementation of a power-proportional web cluster
Energy consumption is a major and costly problem in data centers. A large fraction of this energy goes to powering idle machines that are not doing any useful work. We identify tw...
Andrew Krioukov, Prashanth Mohan, Sara Alspaugh, L...
BMCBI
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
160-fold acceleration of the Smith-Waterman algorithm using a field programmable gate array (FPGA)
Background: To infer homology and subsequently gene function, the Smith-Waterman (SW) algorithm is used to find the optimal local alignment between two sequences. When searching s...
Isaac T. S. Li, Warren Shum, Kevin Truong
IJES
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Partitioning bin-packing algorithms for distributed real-time systems
Embedded real-time systems must satisfy not only logical functional requirements but also para-functional properties such as timeliness, Quality of Service (QoS) and reliability. W...
Dionisio de Niz, Raj Rajkumar