Much attention has been given to the efficient execution of the scale-out applications that
dominate in datacenter computing. However, the effects of the hardware support in the …

A measure of motion salience is proposed for surveillance applications. In this context,
salient motion is taken as motion that is likely to result from a typical surveillance target (eg …

In current shared memory architectures, the complexity of the cache and memory hierarchies
is increasing. Therefore, it is becoming more important to analyze the communication …

Current trends in exascale systems research indicate that heterogeneity will abound in both
the hardware and software layers on future HPC systems. It is our position that exascale …

Exascale systems are expected to feature hundreds of thousands of compute nodes with
hundreds of hardware threads and complex memory hierarchies with a mix of on-package …

Linux-based operating systems and runtimes (OS/Rs) have emerged as the environments of
choice for the majority of modern HPC systems. While Linux-based OS/Rs have advantages …

To achieve the exaFLOPS performance within a contained power budget, next generation
supercomputers will feature hundreds of millions of components operating at low-and near …

The upcoming generation of system software for High Performance Computing is expected
to provide a richer set of functionalities without compromising application performance. This …

Operating System (OS) noise is a well-known phenomenon in which OS activities interfere
with the execution of large-scale parallel applications. Due to OS noise, feature-rich software …

Superpage and page coloring are two important practical techniques to improve the
performance of Translation Lookaside Buffers (TLBs) and shared Last Level Cache (LLC) …