Communications of the ACM
Practice Archive
The Practice archive provides access to all Practice articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
July 2010
From Communications of the ACM
The Ideal HPC Programming Language
Maybe it's Fortran. Or maybe it just doesn't matter.
From Communications of the ACM
You're Doing It Wrong
Think you've mastered the art of server performance? Think again.
From Communications of the ACM
Visualizing System Latency
Heat maps are a unique and powerful way to visualize latency data. Explaining the results, however, is an ongoing challenge.