In recent years, the increasing number of processor cores and limited increases in main memory bandwidth have led to the problem of the bandwidth wall, where memory bandwidth is b...
Guangyu Sun, Christopher J. Hughes, Changkyu Kim, ...
Solid State Disks (SSDs) are superior to magnetic disks from a performance point of view due to the favorable features of NAND flash memory. Furthermore, thanks to improvement on...
Jinho Seol, Hyotaek Shim, Jaegeuk Kim, Seungryoul ...
Good network hardware performance is often squandered by overheads for accessing the network interface (NI) within a host. NIs that support user-level messaging avoid frequent ope...
Analysis of technology and application trends reveals a growing imbalance in the peak compute-to-memory-capacity ratio for future servers. At the same time, the fraction contribut...
Kevin T. Lim, Jichuan Chang, Trevor N. Mudge, Part...
Instruction-grain lifeguards monitor the events of a running application at the level of individual instructions in order to identify and help mitigate application bugs and securi...
Evangelos Vlachos, Michelle L. Goodstein, Michael ...