The multi-level storage architecture has been widely adopted in servers and data centers. However, while prefetching has been shown as a crucial technique to exploit the sequentia...
Silicon technology will continue to provide an exponential increase in the availability of raw transistors. Effectively translating this resource into application performance, how...
Steven Swanson, Ken Michelson, Andrew Schwerin, Ma...
This paper describes Shasta, a system that supports a shared address space in software on clusters of computers with physically distributed memory. A unique aspect of Shasta compa...
Daniel J. Scales, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Chandramoh...
For each computer system generation, there are always applications or workloads for which the main memory size is the major limitation. On the other hand, in many cases, one could...
Instruction-Set Simulators (ISS) are indispensable tools for studying new architectures. There are several alternatives to achieve instruction set simulation, such as interpretive...
Jiajia Song, HongWei Hao, Claude Helmstetter, Vani...