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Toward Energy-Efficient Computing
What will it take to make server-side computing more energy efficient?
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Software Model Checking Takes Off
A translator framework enables the use of model checking in complex avionics systems and other industrial settings.
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Managing Contention For Shared Resources on Multicore Processors
Contention for caches, memory controllers, and interconnects can be eased by contention-aware scheduling algorithms.
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Power-Efficient Software
Power-manageable hardware can help save energy, but what can software developers do to address the problem?
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Maximizing Power Efficiency with Asymmetric Multicore Systems
How do we develop software to make the most of the promise that asymmetric multicore systems use a lot less energy?
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What DNS Is Not
DNS is many things to many people — perhaps too many things to too many people.
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A Conversation with David E. Shaw
Stanford professor Pat Hanrahan sits down with the noted hedge fund founder, computational biochemist, and (above all) computer scientist.
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Unifying Biological Image Formats with HDF5
The biosciences need an image format capable of high performance and long-term maintenance. Is HDF5 the answer?
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Probing Biomolecular Machines with Graphics Processors
GPU acceleration and other computer performance increases will offer critical benefits to biomedical science.
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Making Sense of Revision-Control Systems
All revision-control systems come with complicated sets of trade-offs. How do you find the best match between tool and team?
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Monitoring and Control of Large Systems With MonALISA
MonALISA developers describe how it works, the key design principles behind it, and the biggest technical challenges in building it.
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CTO Roundtable: Cloud Computing
The age of cloud computing has begun. How can companies take advantage of the new opportunities it provides?
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The Pathologies of Big Data
Scale up your datasets enough and your apps come undone. What are the typical problems and where do the bottlenecks surface?
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Whither Sockets?
The pervasive and long-lasting sockets API has remained largely unchanged since 1982. How have developers worked around its inherent limitations and what is the...
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Network Front-End Processors, Yet Again
The history of NFE processors sheds light on the trade-offs involved in designing network stack software.
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Better Scripts, Better Games
Smarter, more powerful scripting languages will improve game performance while making gameplay development more efficient.
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Improving Performance on the Internet
Given the Internet's bottlenecks, how can we build fast, scalable, content-delivery systems?
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Parallel Programming with Transactional Memory
While still primarily a research project, transactional memory shows promise for making parallel programming easier.
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The Long Road to 64 Bits
The sometimes contentious development of 64-bit systems shows how technology decisions can have unexpected, enduring consequences.
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