IP forwarding is one of the main bottlenecks in Internet backbone routers, as it requires performing the longest-prefix match at 10Gbps speed or higher. IPv6 forwarding further ex...
The ever increasing gap between processor and memory speed, sometimes referred to as the Memory Wall problem [42], has a very negative impact on performance. This mismatch will be...
The industry is rapidly moving towards the adoption of Chip Multi-Processors (CMPs) of Simultaneous MultiThreaded (SMT) cores for general purpose systems. The most prominent use o...
Ali El-Moursy, R. Garg, David H. Albonesi, Sandhya...
The load/store queue (LSQ) is one of the most complex parts of contemporary processors. Its latency is critical for the processor performance and it is usually one of the processo...
The key to increasing performance without a commensurate increase in power consumption in modern processors lies in increasing both parallelism and core specialization. Core speci...