Clustered microarchitectures are an effective approach to reducing the penalties caused by wire delays inside a chip. Current superscalar processors have in fact a two-cluster mic...
Ramon Canal, Joan-Manuel Parcerisa, Antonio Gonz&a...
Dynamic information collected as a software system executes can help software engineers perform some tasks on a system more effectively. To interpret the sizable amount of data ge...
Load balancing involves assigning to each processor, work proportional to its performance, minimizing the execution time of the program. Althoughstatic load balancing can solve ma...
Mohammed Javeed Zaki, Wei Li, Srinivasan Parthasar...
Recent years have seen significant advances in dynamic software updating (DSU) systems, which allow programs to be patched on the fly. However, a significant challenge remains: Ho...
Christopher M. Hayden, Eric A. Hardisty, Michael W...
Power dissipation is a major concern not only for portable systems, but also for high-performance systems. In the past, energy consumption and processor heating was reduced mainly...