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Application software
About: Application software is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 12185 publications have been published within this topic receiving 219822 citations. The topic is also known as: software application & application software.
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01 Jun 1980
TL;DR: The special features, design, and technology of array processors are described and their deployment and reports on their communications capabilities are explained.
Abstract: Describes the special features, design, and technology of array processors. Explains their deployment and reports on their communications capabilities.
69 citations
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01 Oct 1990
TL;DR: In this paper, a virtual software machine for providing a virtual execution environment in a target computer for an application software program having one or more execution dependencies that are incompatible with a software execution environment on the target computer.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a virtual software machine for providing a virtual execution environment in a target computer for an application software program having one or more execution dependencies that are incompatible with a software execution environment on the target computer. The machine comprises a plurality of independent processes, and a virtual control mechanism having a virtual management interface (VMI) for generating requests for execution to the plurality of independent processes and receiving results of such processing. The requests for execution and the results are communicated via a message exchange mechanism. The machine also includes a pre-processor for generating a pre-processed application program in which the execution dependencies are masked. A compiler/linker receives the pre-processed application program and the virtual control mechanism and generates executable code for the operating system of the target computer. A run-time module of the machine is run by the operating system of the target computer for executing the application software program in the target computer despite the execution dependency that is incompatible with the target computer system software execution environment.
69 citations
24 Apr 2006
TL;DR: This paper describes a methodology for generating hardware accelerator modules that are tightly coupled with a soft RISC CPU, its tool chain, and its memory system, and presents results of the implementation, the C2H compiler.
Abstract: Methodologies for synthesis of stand-alone hardware modules from C/C++ based languages have been gaining adoption for embedded system design, as an essential means to stay ahead of increasing performance, complexity, and time-to-market demands. However, using C to generate stand-alone blocks does not allow for truly seamless unification of embedded software and hardware development flows. This paper describes a methodology for generating hardware accelerator modules that are tightly coupled with a soft RISC CPU, its tool chain, and its memory system. This coupling allows for several significant advancements: (1) a unified development environment with true pushbutton switching between original software and hardware-accelerated implementations, (2) direct access to memory from the accelerator module, (3) full support for pointers and arrays, and (4) latency-aware pipelining of memory transactions. We also present results of our implementation, the C2H compiler. Eight user test cases on common embedded applications show speedup factors of 13x-73x achieved in less than a few days
68 citations
17 May 2010
TL;DR: The preliminary results shows that dynamic bottleneck detection and resolution for multi-tier Web application hosted on the cloud will help to offer SLAs that can offer response time guarantees.
Abstract: Current service-level agreements (SLAs) offered by cloud providers do not make guarantees about response time of Web applications hosted on the cloud. Satisfying a maximum average response time guarantee for Web applications is difficult due to unpredictable traffic patterns. The complex nature of multi-tier Web applications increases the difficulty of identifying bottlenecks and resolving them automatically. It may be possible to minimize the probability that tiers (hosted on virtual machines) become bottlenecks by optimizing the placement of the virtual machines in a cloud. This research focuses on enabling clouds to offer multi-tier Web application owners maximum response time guarantees while minimizing resource utilization. We present our basic approach, preliminary experiments, and results on a EUCALYPTUS-based testbed cloud. Our preliminary results shows that dynamic bottleneck detection and resolution for multi-tier Web application hosted on the cloud will help to offer SLAs that can offer response time guarantees.
68 citations
05 Dec 2005
TL;DR: The authors describes the issues confronted by the climateprediction.net project in creating a volunteer computing project using a large legacy climate model application, which typically takes from weeks to months to complete one simulation, and has large memory and disk usage requirements.
Abstract: This paper describes the issues confronted by the climateprediction.net project in creating a volunteer computing project using a large legacy climate model application. This application typically takes from weeks to months to complete one simulation, and has large memory and disk usage requirements. We describe issues in porting the climate model to a single-processor PC platform, checkpointing, computer resources and workunit size for a simulation, and the volunteer computing infrastructures used (a project-specific system and BOINC). We also describe the methods used to obtain and retain users, and examine the retention/attrition rate of users running the lengthy modelling simulations
68 citations