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ISCA
1998
IEEE
129views Hardware» more  ISCA 1998»
14 years 27 days ago
Memory System Characterization of Commercial Workloads
Commercial applications such as databases and Web servers constitute the largest and fastest-growing segment of the market for multiprocessor servers. Ongoing innovations in disk ...
Luiz André Barroso, Kourosh Gharachorloo, E...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
115views Hardware» more  ISCA 2002»
14 years 1 months ago
SafetyNet: Improving the Availability of Shared Memory Multiprocessors with Global Checkpoint/Recovery
We develop an availability solution, called SafetyNet, that uses a unified, lightweight checkpoint/recovery mechanism to support multiple long-latency fault detection schemes. At...
Daniel J. Sorin, Milo M. K. Martin, Mark D. Hill, ...
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Is transactional programming actually easier?
Chip multi-processors (CMPs) have become ubiquitous, while tools that ease concurrent programming have not. The promise of increased performance for all applications through ever ...
Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Emmett W...
CACM
2011
96views more  CACM 2011»
13 years 3 months ago
Why STM can be more than a research toy
Software Transactional Memory (STM) promises to simplify concurrent programming without requiring specific hardware support. Yet, STM’s credibility lies on the extent to which ...
Aleksandar Dragojevic, Pascal Felber, Vincent Gram...
ICCD
2004
IEEE
106views Hardware» more  ICCD 2004»
14 years 5 months ago
Energy Characterization of Hardware-Based Data Prefetching
This paper evaluates several hardware-based data prefetching techniques from an energy perspective, and explores their energy/performance tradeoffs. We present detailed simulation...
Yao Guo, Saurabh Chheda, Israel Koren, C. Mani Kri...