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- Overhead
- (1) The amount of processing time used by system software, such as the operating system, TP monitor or database manager.
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- Achieving 10 Gb/s Using Safe and Transparent Network Interface Virtualization
- This paper presents mechanisms and optimizations to reduce the overhead of network interface virtualization when using the driver domain I/O virtualization model. The driver domain model provides benefits such as support for legacy device drivers and fault isolation. However, the processing overheads incurred in the driver domain to achieve these...
- White papers 2009-02-06
- Performance Evaluation of Mobile WiMAX With Dynamic Overhead
- Mobile WiMAX has become one of the 3rd Generation communication systems and its performance has been widely evaluated. The physical overhead is a critical factor that may affect the overall performance significantly. But almost no attention has been paid to the impact of overhead on system performance yet. This paper...
- White papers 2008-06-02
- The Seamless Browser: Enhancing the Speed of Web Browsing by Zooming and Preview Thumbnails
- This paper presents a new web browsing system, Seamless Browser, for fast link traversal on a large screen like TV In navigating web, users mainly suffer from cognitive overhead of determining whether or not to follow links. This overhead can be reduced by providing preview information of the destination of...
- White papers 2008-04-25
- ACM - the copyright is provided at the end of the first page, ACM stands for Association for Computing Machinery
- Context switching imposes a performance penalty on threads in a multitasking environment. The source of this penalty is both direct overhead due to running the context switch code and indirect overhead due to perturbation of caches. Indirect overhead is calculated by measuring the running time of tasks that use context...
- White papers 2007-06-14
- Pragmatics of Virtual Machines for High-Performance Computing: A Quantitative Study of Basic Overheads
- Heterogeneous administrative domains, Operating Systems OS, and libraries make it difficult for computational scientists to fully utilize metacomputers and grids. Through a simple quantitative study, this paper shows that recent improvements in software and hardware support reduces the overheads for HPC applications (e.g., GROMACS, BLAST, HMMer) to under 6% for...
- White papers 2007-04-16
- Performance Analysis of System Overheads in TCP/IP Workloads
- Current high-performance computer systems are unable to saturate the latest available high-bandwidth networks such as 10 Gigabit Ethernet. A key obstacle in achieving 10 gigabits per second is the high overhead of communication between the CPU and network interface controller NIC, which typically resides on a standard I/O bus with...
- White papers 2005-09-01
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- Software downloads 2009-10-31
- 2010 Infiniti QX56
- Photo gallery:2010 Infiniti QX56Compared with sporting and agile cars such as the Infiniti G37 and FX50, the 2010 Infiniti QX56 is an odd throwback, a journey into yesteryear before the first hybrids strode the earth. Built on a truck frame, it rides like a railway car. The engine, big enough...
- Product reviews 2009-10-30
- BestSync FTP 2009 4.2.30 (Windows)
- BestSync is a professional tool to synchronize or mirroring local folder with FTP server, Net Drive, USB disk; Only updated files are transfer to target, the network overhead is reduced dramatically. BestSync provides many advanced features: Fast file filtering engine, only designated file types and changed files are transferred; 128BITS...
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
- Why Print Management Matters
- Print Management provides a breakthrough answer to today's top business challenge: reducing overhead without harming productivity. Jim Salzer of DocuAudit Intl. shows how Print Management allows you to control documentation expenses by outsourcing the management of your current print environment.
- White papers 2009-10-29
- EZScan2PDF 01.00.03 (Windows)
- EZScan2PDF can take documents and turn them into PDFs using a scanner with just a few clicks. EZScan2PDF starts quickly, and has low memory requirements. It sits in the System Tray, out of the way until you need it. Click the icon to 'open' a PDF. Everytime you scan a...
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- Can open source software stop IT failure?
- I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Substrate 1.0.1 (Mac)
- Substrate is a lovely and free Mac OS X screensaver that looks like cracking patterns in rocks or an overhead view of a growing city. It's engrossing to watch the intricate patterns build on your screen.
- Software downloads 2009-10-24
- Jigsaw Pieces Can Be More Agile Than Platforms
- Box.net, the little company that likes to tweak Goliath Microsoft's nose with digs at Sharepoint - the billboard above is near Microsoft's silicon valley digs -Â announced an alignment with Salesforce.com CRM earlier today. Nothing earth shattering here at first glance: it makes perfect sense for...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Carry on blues and the blame game
- 7mgte is right(sorry, I can't reply to a posting, just the story)It's not like the airline saves any money on fuel if you carry it on, vs. check it. It still has to lug the weight around.Just Wait for the Other Shoe Charge to DropJust wait until the airlines "solve"...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- SaaS: Shelfware as a service?
- Software as a service is portrayed to be the future of information technology, but it isn't quite the cure-all it's cracked up to be. Shelfware and lock-in may not save you a lot of money. That's the message from Gartner analyst Rob DeSisto. Here's...
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Windows XP Mode Q and A
- 7/Vista incompatible "Drivers" on XP modeMy otherwise perfectly working HP printer, Logitech webcam, and an analog microphone failed to work with Vista since the hardware vendors won't provide updated drivers while the older ones resulted in BSODs. Can these be made to work by installing the drivers into XP...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Live Webcast: Building an Always-On Single Instance Database
- New with Oracle Database 11g Release 2, Oracle Real Application Clusters One Node Oracle RAC One Node is a one-node version of Oracle RAC which enables customers to standardize on a single deployment model for all their database needs. It offers far greater benefits than traditional server virtualization to single...
- Webcasts 2009-10-20
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- Discussion threads 2009-10-17
- Five steps before moving to Windows 7
- I found this part disturbing.[i] Gartner estimated that it will cost US$339 to US$510 per user to move from Windows Vista to Windows 7, and US$1,035 to US$1,930 per user to move from Windows XP to Windows 7.[/i]Unless that includes more than just the OS. A site license should cost...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-16
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