Although the best processor design for executing a specific workload does depend on the characteristics of the workload, it can not be determined without factoring-in the effect o...
—Accelerators are special purpose processors designed to speed up compute-intensive sections of applications. Two extreme endpoints in the spectrum of possible accelerators are F...
Shuai Che, Jie Li, Jeremy W. Sheaffer, Kevin Skadr...
As multi-core architectures flourish in the marketplace, multi-application workload scenarios (such as server consolidation) are growing rapidly. When running multiple application...
Li Zhao, Ravi R. Iyer, Ramesh Illikkal, Jaideep Mo...
As Chip Multiprocessor (CMP) has become the mainstream in processor architectures, Intel and AMD have introduced their dual-core processors to the PC market. In this paper, perfor...
Lu Peng, Jih-Kwon Peir, Tribuvan K. Prakash, Yen-K...
Abstract. Software based side-channel attacks allow an unprivileged spy process to extract secret information from a victim (cryptosystem) process by exploiting some indirect leaka...