Understanding performance and related issues in a complex system requires analyzing where and why the program spends its resources. In a reactive system such as a interactive appl...
Modern architectures, such as the Intel Itanium, support speculation, a hardware mechanism that allows the early execution of expensive operations—possibly even before it is kno...
Noah Snavely, Saumya K. Debray, Gregory R. Andrews
Public policy makers and others wishing to understand the potential impact of our actions on the environment need a tool to simulate and visualize relevant processes. Present mode...
James R. Miller, Johannes J. Feddema, Terry A. Slo...
Optimizing the performance of shared-memory NUMA programs remains something of a black art, requiring that application writers possess deep understanding of their programs’ beha...
The theory of granular partitions (TGP) is a new approach to the understanding of ontologies and other classificatory systems. The paper explores the use of this new theory in the ...