For the past 30+ years, system calls have been the de facto interface used by applications to
request services from the operating system kernel. System calls have almost universally …

The increasing constraints on power consumption in many computing systems point to the
need for power modeling and estimation for all components of a system. The Operating …

In canonical parallel processing, the operating system (OS) assigns a processing core to a
single thread from a multithreaded server application. Since different threads from the same …

On-chip performance counters play a vital role in computer architecture research due to their
ability to quickly provide insights into application behaviors that are time consuming to …

Java workloads are becoming increasingly prominent on various platforms ranging from
embedded systems, over general-purpose computers to high-end servers. Understanding …

Memory trace analysis is an important technology for architecture research, system software
(ie, OS, compiler) optimization, and application performance improvements. Many …

Finding a good partition of a computational directed acyclic graph associated with an
algorithm can help find an execution pattern improving data locality, conduct an analysis of …

Modern microprocessors adopt speculative scheduling techniques where instructions are
scheduled several clock cycles before they actually execute. Due to this scheduling delay …

Both limited main memory size and memory interference are considered as the major
bottlenecks in virtualization environments. Memory deduplication, detecting pages with …

As the smart cities emerged for more comfortable urban spaces, services, such as health,
transportation, and so on, need to be promoted. In addition, the cloud computing provides …