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Interesting paper by the late Jim Gray and Bob Fitzgerald on flash disks
This paper which can be viewed in the July/August ACM Queue magazine I found quite interesting as I had noticed that both Apple (MacBook Air) and Dell (XPS range) now ship notebooks with solid state hard drive's. Granted they are a lot more expensive...
Posted: Aug 21 2008, 11:39 AM by gbarnett
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CPU Scheduling Simulator 1.0 released!
I've said it all before in recent posts, but here it is again - CPUSS is a framework that allows you to design and analyse CPU scheduling algorithms. Download CPUSS 1.0 There is a tonne of stuff in CPUSS! Most of which is not exposed by the report generation...
CPU Scheduling Simulator 0.6 released!
Download CPUSS 0.6 Some cool new features added in this release, they include: Variance Standard Deviation CPU Busy Time CPU Idle Time Get average wait time for a category of process (this uses a predicate function) I am tempted to say that this build...
CPUSS: Using the SJF Expert Rule
The SJF Expert Rule strategy is designed to elevate the priority of large processes based on a precondition defined by the user, that basically says if the current % of processes in the ready queue is greater than N then execute some of the large processes...
CPU Scheduling Simulator (CPUSS) 0.1 released!
I have an interest in CPU scheduling strategies so I thought I would make a framework ( CPUSS ) by which you could use standard strategies (first-come-first-served, shortest job first, round robin, priority etc) and also create your own and gather metrics...
Compiler research
Over the last 4 or so months I have drifted away from technologies and focused heavily on compiler theory and design as well as data structures and algorithms. You may of noticed that F# has become a fairly recurrent theme on this blog - that's because...
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