M y friends hate their jobs. No, these aren't my flaky friends who are never happy with the circumstances of their lives. These are the solid citizens, always looking for how to do their work better and live happier lives. Still, without exception, they report being unhappy in their jobs. Spurred by this universal dislike or even hatred of their jobs, many people in software development and tes...

A major reason for the low take-up rate of telecommuting is that companies are not convinced of the economic benefits of telecommuting. They believe most of the benefits accrue to the workers but not the company. This paper presents the findings of a cost benefit analysis. Four categories of costs and benefits are identified. The analysis considers three categories of workers: managers, profess...

A PubMed search using the terms “vulnerable plaque” or “high-risk” plaque yields 2,000 references to journal articles published over the past 20 years. Indeed, few concepts in cardiovascular medicine have achieved such intense scientific interest over such a long duration. During this 20-year period, many diagnostic techniques designed to “detect” vulnerable plaques have come and gone. In each ...

Application startup latency has become a performance problem for both desktop applications and web applications. In this paper, we show that much of the latency experienced during application startup can be avoided by more e ciently packing application code pages. To take advantage of more e cient packing, we describe the implementation of demand paging for web applications. Finally, we show th...

Measurement shows that 85% of TCP flows in the internet are short-lived flows that stay most of their operation in the TCP startup phase. However, many previous studies indicate that the traditional TCP Slow Start algorithm does not perform well, especially in long fat networks. Two obvious problems are known to impact the Slow Start performance, which are the blind initial setting of the Slow ...

in this paper, startup performance of upflow anaerobic hybrid reactor and upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors in anaerobic treatment of distillery spentwash has been studied under identical conditions of operation. various effluent characteristics like ph, electrical conductivity, chemical oxygen demand, biochemical oxygen demand and total solids and other process parameters like biogas pr...

Containerized applications are becoming increasingly popular, but unfortunately, current containerdeployment methods are very slow. We develop a new container benchmark, HelloBench, to evaluate the startup times of 57 different containerized applications. We use HelloBench to analyze workloads in detail, studying the block I/O patterns exhibited during startup and compressibility of container i...

Floating-point processing utilizes a format defined in IEEE 754, and is supported by microprocessor architectures. However, the IEEE 754 format is inefficient to implement in hardware, and floating-point processing is not supported in VHDL or Verilog. Newer versions, such as SystemVerilog, allow floating-point variables, but industry-standard synthesis tools do not support floating-point techno...