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A View of Cloud Computing
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A View of Cloud Computing

Clearing the clouds away from the true potential and obstacles posed by this computing capability.

Cooling the Data Center
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Cooling the Data Center

What can be done to make cooling systems in data centers more energy efficient?

Toward Energy-Efficient Computing
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Toward Energy-Efficient Computing

What will it take to make server-side computing more energy efficient?

Software Model Checking Takes Off
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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.

Managing Contention For Shared Resources on Multicore Processors
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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.

Power-Efficient Software
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Power-Efficient Software

Power-manageable hardware can help save energy, but what can software developers do to address the problem?

Maximizing Power Efficiency with Asymmetric Multicore Systems
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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?

What DNS Is Not
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What DNS Is Not

DNS is many things to many people — perhaps too many things to too many people.

A Conversation with David E. Shaw
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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.

Unifying Biological Image Formats with HDF5
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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?

Probing Biomolecular Machines with Graphics Processors
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Probing Biomolecular Machines with Graphics Processors

GPU acceleration and other computer performance increases will offer critical benefits to biomedical science.

Making Sense of Revision-Control Systems
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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?

Monitoring and Control of Large Systems With MonALISA
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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.

CTO Roundtable
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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?

The Pathologies of Big Data
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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?

Whither Sockets?
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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...

Network Front-End Processors, Yet Again
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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.

Better Scripts, Better Games
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Better Scripts, Better Games

Smarter, more powerful scripting languages will improve game performance while making gameplay development more efficient.

Improving Performance on the Internet
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Improving Performance on the Internet

Given the Internet's bottlenecks, how can we build fast, scalable, content-delivery systems?

Parallel Programming with Transactional Memory
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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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