June 2008 - Posts

18 June 2008
Lessons from the test lab: investigating a pleasant surprise
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 Read More...
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10 June 2008
Mainstream NUMA and the TCP/IP stack: Part I.
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, Read More...
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02 June 2008
Introduction to Control Theory and Its Application to Computing Systems -- Part 1
Part 1 of the slide presentation. Read More...
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Attachment(s):Sigmetrics Tutorial On Control Engineering -- Part 1 - Introduction.pptx
02 June 2008
Introduction to Control Theory and Its Application to Computing Systems -- Part 2
Part 2 of the slide presentation. Read More...
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Attachment(s):Sigmetrics Tutorial on Control Engineering -- Part 2 - Self-Tuning Memory Management.ppt
02 June 2008
Introduction to Control Theory and Its Application to Computing Systems
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: Read More...
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Attachment(s):Sigmetrics Tutorial on Control Engineering -- Part 3 - Control in Distributed Real Time Systems.ppt
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