On-chip memory organization is one of the most important aspects that can influence the overall system behavior in multiprocessor systems. Following the trend set by high-perform...
Mohamed M. Sabry, Martino Ruggiero, Pablo Garcia D...
File systems make use of part of DRAM as the buffer cache to enhance its performance in traditional systems. In this paper, we consider the use of Non-Volatile RAM (NVRAM) as a w...
In Hwan Doh, Hyo J. Lee, Young Je Moon, Eunsam Kim...
Short vector (SIMD) instructions are useful in signal processing, multimedia, and scientific applications. They offer higher performance, lower energy consumption, and better res...
Instruction set simulators are critical tools for the exploration and validation of new programmable architectures. Due to increasing complexity of the architectures and timeto-ma...
Profile data is valuable for identifying performance bottlenecks and guiding optimizations. Periodic sampling of a processor's performance monitoring hardware is an effective...
Jeffrey Dean, James E. Hicks, Carl A. Waldspurger,...