In order to achieve high performance, contemporary microprocessors must effectively process the four major instruction types: ALU, branch, load, and store instructions. This paper...
Bryan Black, Brian Mueller, Stephanie Postal, Ryan...
Shared memory in a parallel computer provides prowith the valuable abstraction of a shared address space--through which any part of a computation can access any datum. Although un...
The importance of fault tolerance at the processor architecture level has been made increasingly important due to rapid advancements in the design and usage of high performance de...
T. S. Ganesh, Viswanathan Subramanian, Arun K. Som...
Despite impressive advances in file system throughput resulting from technologies such as high-bandwidth networks and disk arrays, file system latency has not improved and in many...
Distributed hash tables (DHTs), used in a number of structured peer-to-peer (P2P) systems provide efficient mechanisms for resource placement and location. A key distinguishing fe...
Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Suresh Jagannathan, Ananth Gr...