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Advances in computers Volume 75, Computer performance issues /

This is volume 75 of Advances in Computers. This series, which began publication in 1960, is the oldest continuously published anthology that chronicles the ever- changing information technology field. In these volumes we publish from 5 to 7 chapters, three times per year, that cover the latest chan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Zelkowitz, Marvin V., 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Burlington, MA : Academic Press, 2009.
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  • Front Cover; Advances in Computers: Computer Performance Issues; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1: The UK HPC Integration Market: Commodity-Based Clusters; 1. Introduction; 2. Commodity Clusters and HPC; 3. The UK HPC Landscape; 4. UK Integrators of Commodity Clusters; 5. Tier-1 Suppliers of Commodity Clusters in the UK; 6. Evaluating the Performance of Commodity Clusters; 7. Summary and Conclusions; References; Chapter 2: Elements of High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing; 1. Introduction; 2. FPGA Accelerator Architecture and Computing Models
  • 3. Sample Applications4. Methods for Avoiding Implementational Heat; 5. GPGPU An Alternative Approach to Acceleration; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledments; References; Chapter 3:Models and Metrics for Energy-Efficient Computing; 1. Introduction; 2. Energy-Efficiency Metrics; 3. Case Study: The JouleSort Benchmark; 4. Power and Thermal Modeling Challenges; 5. Power Modeling Evaluation; 6. Online Thermal Modeling and Management; 7. Conclusions; References; Chapter 4:The Emerging Landscape of Computer Performance Evaluation; 1. User-Application Taxonomy; 2. Perspective; 3. Workload-Specific Processors
  • 4. Spectroprocessing for Qualitative Computation5. Conclusions; Acknowledments; References; Chapter 5: Advances in Web Testing; 1. Introduction; 2. Challenges of Web Testing; 3. Web Application Models; 4. Web Test Case Generation; 5. Portability Analysis; 6. Conclusion; References; Author Index; Subject Index; Contents of Volumes in This Series