Queue Programming Challenge
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Interviews
A Conversation with Steve Furber
The designer of the ARM chip shares lessons on energy-efficient computing.
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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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Managing Contention for Shared Resources on Multicore Processors
Contention for caches, memory controllers, and interconnects can be alleviated by contention-aware scheduling algorithms.
Columns: Kode Vicious
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Standards Advice
Easing the pain of implementing standards
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Triple-Parity RAID and BeyondAs hard-drive capacities continue to outpace their throughput, the time has come for a new level of RAID.
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Data in Flight
How streaming SQL technology can help solve the Web 2.0 data crunch.
Columns: Curmudgeon
- Some Rules and Restrictions May Apply
An inquiry into contracts and the Next Big Thing
Case Study: File Systems and Storage
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GFS: Evolution on Fast-forward
A discussion between Kirk McKusick and Sean Quinlan about the origin and evolution of the Google File System
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Cloud Computing: An Overview
A summary of important cloud-computing issues distilled from ACM CTO Roundtables -
CTO Roundtable: Cloud Computing
Our panel of experts discuss cloud computing and how companies can make the best use of it.
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Why we're able to Google
Computing Research that Changed the World: Reflections and Perspectives
Planet Queue
An aggregation of blog postings by acmqueue authors on ACM Digital Library articles. acmqueue authors “unlock” these articles making them freely available to the general readership.
Latest Postings on articles from the ACM Digital Library :
- Queue, CACM, and the rebirth of the ACM
- "Where do you come from? and where are you going?"
- A Conversation with Alan Kay
- A Conversation with Jarod Jenson
- A High-Performance Team
- Anton, a special-purpose machine for molecular dynamics simulation
- Flash storage memory
- Hidden in Plain Sight
- Self-Healing in Modern Operating Systems
- Electronic Junk revisited
- ACM Forum
- ACM president's letter: electronic junk
- Eulogy for a benchmark
- Not just correct, but correct and fast: a look at one of Jim Gray's contributions to database system performance
- Performance Anti-Patterns
