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The Implementation of the Cilk-5 Multithreaded Language

by Matteo Frigo, Charles E. Leiserson, Keith H. Randall , 1998
"... The fifth release of the multithreaded language Cilk uses a provably good "work-stealing " scheduling algorithm similar to the rst system, but the language has been completely redesigned and the runtime system completely reengineered. The efficiency of the new implementation was aided ..."
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, this "work-first" principle has led to a portable Cilk-5 implementation in which the typical cost of spawning a parallel thread is only between 2 and 6 times the cost of a C function call on a variety of contemporary machines. Many Cilk programs run on one processor with virtually no degradation

Memory resource management in VMware ESX server,”

by Carl A Waldspurger - In Proc. of the 5th OSDI, , 2002
"... Abstract VMware ESX Server is a thin software layer designed to multiplex hardware resources efficiently among virtual machines running unmodified commodity operating systems. This paper introduces several novel ESX Server mechanisms and policies for managing memory. A ballooning technique reclaims ..."
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Abstract VMware ESX Server is a thin software layer designed to multiplex hardware resources efficiently among virtual machines running unmodified commodity operating systems. This paper introduces several novel ESX Server mechanisms and policies for managing memory. A ballooning technique

The eucalyptus open-source cloud-computing system

by Daniel Nurmi, Rich Wolski, Chris Grzegorczyk, Graziano Obertelli, Sunil Soman, Lamia Youseff, Dmitrii Zagorodnov - In Proceedings of Cloud Computing and Its Applications [Online
"... Cloud computing systems fundamentally provide access to large pools of data and computational resources through a variety of interfaces similar in spirit to existing grid and HPC resource management and programming systems. These types of systems offer a new programming target for scalable applicati ..."
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. In this work, we present EUCALYPTUS – an opensource software framework for cloud computing that implements what is commonly referred to as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); systems that give users the ability to run and control entire virtual machine instances deployed across a variety physical resources. We

A model for types and levels of human interaction with automation

by Raja Parasuraman, Thomas B. Sheridan, Christopher D. Wickens - IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics – Part A: Systems and Humans
"... Abstract—Technical developments in computer hardware and software now make it possible to introduce automation into virtually all aspects of human-machine systems. Given these technical capabilities, which system functions should be automated and to what extent? We outline a model for types and leve ..."
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Abstract—Technical developments in computer hardware and software now make it possible to introduce automation into virtually all aspects of human-machine systems. Given these technical capabilities, which system functions should be automated and to what extent? We outline a model for types

The DaCapo Benchmarks: Java Benchmarking Development and Analysis

by Stephen M Blackburn, Robin Garner , Chris Hoffmann , Asjad M Khan , Kathryn S Mckinley , Rotem Bentzur , Amer Diwan , Daniel Feinberg , Daniel Frampton , Samuel Z Guyer , Martin Hirzel , Antony Hosking , Maria Jump , Han Lee , J Eliot B Moss, Aashish Phansalkar , Darko Stefanović , Thomas Vandrunen , Daniel Von Dincklage , Ben Wiedermann
"... Since benchmarks drive computer science research and industry product development, which ones we use and how we evaluate them are key questions for the community. Despite complex runtime tradeoffs due to dynamic compilation and garbage collection required for Java programs, many evaluations still us ..."
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Capo benchmarks, a set of open source, client-side Java benchmarks. We demonstrate that the complex interactions of (1) architecture, (2) compiler, (3) virtual machine, (4) memory management, and (5) application require more extensive evaluation than C, C++, and Fortran which stress (4) much less, and do

Virtual Network Computing

by Tristan Richardson, Quentin Stafford-fraser, Kenneth R. Wood, Kenneth R. Wood, Andy Hopper , 1998
"... this article by summarizing the evolution of VNC from our work on thin-client architectures. We then describe the structure of the VNC protocol, and conclude by discussing the ways we use VNC technology now and how it may evolve further as new clients and servers are developed. THE ORIGINS OF VNC T ..."
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The X Window System allows applications to display a user interface on a remote machine. ORL extended this functionality in our Teleporting System by allowing the user interface of a running X application to be dynamically redirected to a different display

Fixing the Java memory model

by Jeremy Manson, William Pugh, Sarita V. Adve, Jeremy Manson - In ACM Java Grande Conference , 1999
"... This paper describes the new Java memory model, which has been revised as part of Java 5.0. The model specifies the legal behaviors for a multithreaded program; it defines the semantics of multithreaded Java programs and partially determines legal implementations of Java virtual machines and compile ..."
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This paper describes the new Java memory model, which has been revised as part of Java 5.0. The model specifies the legal behaviors for a multithreaded program; it defines the semantics of multithreaded Java programs and partially determines legal implementations of Java virtual machines

Style machines

by Matthew Brand, Aaron Hertzmann, Matthew Brand, Aaron Hertzmann - Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2000 , 2000
"... We approach the problem of stylistic motion synthesis by learning motion patterns from a highly varied set of motion capture sequences. Each sequence may have a distinct choreography, performed in a distinct style. Learning identifies common choreographic elements across sequences, the different sty ..."
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graceful modern dance of an expert. The model can also be driven by video, by scripts, or even by noise to generate new choreography and synthesize virtual motion-capture in many styles.

Learning Collaborative Information Filters

by Daniel Billsus, Michael J. Pazzani - In Proc. 15th International Conf. on Machine Learning , 1998
"... Predicting items a user would like on the basis of other users’ ratings for these items has become a well-established strategy adopted by many recommendation services on the Internet. Although this can be seen as a classification problem, algo-rithms proposed thus far do not draw on results from the ..."
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the ma-chine learning literature. We propose a representation for collaborative filtering tasks that allows the application of virtually any machine learning algorithm. We identify the shortcomings of current collaborative filtering techniques and propose the use of learning algorithms paired

Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments

by Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, Randy Katz, Ion Stoica , 2008
"... MapReduce is emerging as an important programming model for large-scale data-parallel applications such as web indexing, data mining, and scientific simulation. Hadoop is an open-source implementation of MapReduce enjoying wide adoption and is often used for short jobs where low response time is cri ..."
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Approximate Time to End (LATE), that is highly robust to heterogeneity. LATE can improve Hadoop response times by a factor of 2 in clusters of 200 virtual machines on EC2.
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