Low-latency remote-write networks, such as DEC’s Memory Channel, provide the possibility of transparent, inexpensive, large-scale shared-memory parallel computing on clusters of...
Robert Stets, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Nikos Hardavellas...
Generic database replication algorithms do not scale linearly in throughput as all update, deletion and insertion (UDI) queries must be applied to every database replica. The thro...
— As transistor sizes continue to shrink and the number of transistors per chip keeps increasing, chip multiprocessors (CMPs) are becoming a promising alternative to remain on th...
Taylan Yemliha, Shekhar Srikantaiah, Mahmut T. Kan...
In computer architecture, caches have primarily been viewed as a means to hide memory latency from the CPU. Cache policies have focused on anticipating the CPU’s data needs, and...
Jeffrey Stuecheli, Dimitris Kaseridis, David Daly,...
Throughput servers using simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) processors are becoming an important paradigm with products such as Sun's Niagara and IBM Power5. Unfortunately, thr...