We present PacketShader, a high-performance software router framework for general packet
processing with Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) acceleration. PacketShader exploits the …

Rapid growth of the demand for computational power has led to the creation of large-scale
data centers. They consume enormous amounts of electrical power resulting in high …

This paper analyzes the scalability of seven system applications (Exim, memcached,
Apache, PostgreSQL, gmake, Psearchy, and MapReduce) running on Linux on a 48-core …

We revisit the problem of scaling software routers, motivated by recent advances in server
technology that enable high-speed parallel processing--a feature router workloads appear …

Multiprocessor application performance can be limited by the operating system when the
application uses the operating system frequently and the operating system services use data …

We present MegaPipe, a new API for efficient, scalable network I/O for message-oriented
workloads. The design of MegaPipe centers around the abstraction of a channel—a per …

We examine the implications of end-to-end web application development, in the social web
era. The paper describes a distributed architecture, suitable for modern web application …

Computer systems anticipated in the 2015–2020 timeframe are referred to as Extreme Scale
because they will be built using massive multi-core processors with 100's of cores per chip …

The exponential growth in data generated by satellites, radars, sensors, and analysis and
reanalysis from model outputs for the hydrological domain requires efficient real-time data …

Extreme Scale processors containing hundreds or even thousands of cores will challenge
current operating system (OS) practices. Many of the fundamental assumptions that underlie …