Software architectures, like complex designs in any field, embody tradeoffs made by the designers. However, these tradeoffs are not always made explicitly by the designers and the...
Rick Kazman, Mario Barbacci, Mark Klein, S. Jeromy...
On-chip memory organization is one of the most important aspects that can influence the overall system behavior in multiprocessor systems. Following the trend set by high-perform...
Mohamed M. Sabry, Martino Ruggiero, Pablo Garcia D...
This paper outlines our experiences with making architectural tradeoffs between performance, availability, security, and usability, in light of stringent cost and time-to-market c...
T. C. Nicholas Graham, Rick Kazman, Chris Walmsley
The definition of a commodity component is quite obvious when it comes to the PC as a basic compute engine and building block for clusters of PCs. Looking at the options for a mo...
: Tiled architectures, such as RAW, SmartMemories, TRIPS, and WaveScalar, promise to address several issues facing conventional processors, including complexity, wire-delay, and pe...
Steven Swanson, Andrew Putnam, Martha Mercaldi, Ke...