This post describes our recent investigation into an interesting performance problem: benchmarks that we were surprised to find running significantly faster than we expected on new hardware. Along the way we discuss useful benchmarking tools, how to validate...

One of the intriguing aspects of the onset of the many-core processor era is the necessity of using parallel programming techniques to reap the performance benefits of this and future generations of processor chips. Instead of significantly faster processors...

Part 1 of the slide presentation.

Part 2 of the slide presentation.

Our DDPE colleague Joe Hellerstein, along with Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois), Yixin Diao (IBM), Chenyang Lu (Washington University), and Xiaoyun Zhu (HP) , is presenting a seminar this week at ACM Sigmetrics. The session Abstract follows...