This paper seeks to understand and design nextgeneration servers for emerging “warehousecomputing” environments. We make two key contributions. First, we put together a detail...
Kevin T. Lim, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Jichuan C...
—We evaluate three extensions to directory-based cache coherence protocols in shared-memory multiprocessors. These extensions are aimed at reducing the penalties associated with ...
We present a detailed characterization of instruction cache performance for IBM’s J2EE-enabled web server, WebSphere Application Server (WAS). When running two J2EE benchmarks o...
Priya Nagpurkar, Harold W. Cain, Mauricio J. Serra...
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...
Emerging memory technologies such as STT-RAM, PCRAM, and resistive RAM are being explored as potential replacements to existing on-chip caches or main memories for future multi-co...
Asit K. Mishra, Xiangyu Dong, Guangyu Sun, Yuan Xi...