Power consumption within the disk-based storage subsystem forms a substantial portion of the overall energy footprint in commodity systems. Researchers have proposed external cach...
Luis Useche, Jorge Guerra, Medha Bhadkamkar, Mauri...
This paper proposes a hardware transactional memory (HTM) system called LogTM Signature Edition (LogTM-SE). LogTM-SE uses signatures to summarize a transaction's readand writ...
Luke Yen, Jayaram Bobba, Michael R. Marty, Kevin E...
Measurements of an off-the-shelf DRAM chip confirm that different cells retain information for different amounts of time. This result extends to DRAM rows, or pages (retention tim...
Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) and chip multiprocessing (CMP) both allow a chip to achieve greater throughput, but their relative energy-efficiency and thermal properties are s...
Yingmin Li, David Brooks, Zhigang Hu, Kevin Skadro...
ZettaRAMTM is a new memory technology under development by ZettaCoreTM as a potential replacement for conventional DRAM. The key innovation is replacing the conventional capacitor...
Ravi K. Venkatesan, Ahmed S. Al-Zawawi, Eric Roten...