The past few decades have witnessed a chronic and widening imbalance among processor bandwidth, disk capacity, and access speed of disk. According to Amdhal's law, the perfor...
Most general-purpose processors provide support for memory pages of large sizes, called superpages. Superpages enable each entry in the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) to map a...
Juan Navarro, Sitaram Iyer, Peter Druschel, Alan L...
This paper introduces a compiler-orchestrated prefetching system as a unified framework geared toward ameliorating the gap between processing speeds and memory access latencies. ...
Rodric M. Rabbah, Hariharan Sandanagobalane, Mongk...
During the past few years, embedded digital systems have been requested to provide a huge amount of processing power and functionality. A very likely foreseeable step to pursue th...
More and more server workloads are becoming Web-based. In these Web-based workloads, most of the memory objects are used only during one transaction. We study the effect of the me...