Computer systems increasingly rely on dynamic, phasebased system management techniques, in which system hardware and software parameters may be altered or tuned at runtime for dif...
Path profiles provide a more accurate characterization of a program's dynamic behavior than basic block or edge profiles, but are relatively more expensive to collect. This h...
Kapil Vaswani, Aditya V. Nori, Trishul M. Chilimbi
—A key benefit of utility data centers and cloud computing infrastructures is the level of consolidation they can offer to arbitrary guest applications, and the substantial savi...
Mukil Kesavan, Adit Ranadive, Ada Gavrilovska, Kar...
This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
Congestion management is likely to become a critical issue in interconnection networks, as increasing power consumption and cost concerns will lead to the use of smaller networks....