Java performance is far from being trivial to benchmark because it is affected by various factors such as the Java application, its input, the virtual machine, the garbage collect...
In processors with several levels of hardware resource sharing, like CMPs in which each core is an SMT, the scheduling process becomes more complex than in processors with a singl...
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Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT) achieves better system resource utilization and higher performance because it exploits ThreadLevel Parallelism (TLP) in addition to “conventiona...
Thread-level speculation is a technique that brings thread-level parallelism beyond the data-flow limit by executing a piece of code ahead of time speculatively before all its inp...
Xiao-Feng Li, Zhao-Hui Du, Chen Yang, Chu-Cheow Li...
Clusters of high-end workstations and PCs are currently used in many application domains to perform large-scale computations or as scalable servers for I/O bound tasks. Although cl...