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PDPTA
2004
13 years 10 months ago
On the Design and Performance of Remote Disk Drivers for Clusters of PCs
This paper presents the design and performance of remote disk drivers for clusters of Commodity-Off-The-Shelf PCs that fetch disk blocks over System Area Networks. The driver offe...
Vlad Olaru, Walter F. Tichy
ICDCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
STEP: Sequentiality and Thrashing Detection Based Prefetching to Improve Performance of Networked Storage Servers
State-of-the-art networked storage servers are equipped with increasingly powerful computing capability and large DRAM memory as storage caches. However, their contribution to the...
Shuang Liang, Song Jiang, Xiaodong Zhang
MICRO
1998
IEEE
89views Hardware» more  MICRO 1998»
14 years 1 months ago
Load Latency Tolerance in Dynamically Scheduled Processors
This paper provides quantitative measurements of load latency tolerance in a dynamically scheduled processor. To determine the latency tolerance of each memory load operation, our...
Srikanth T. Srinivasan, Alvin R. Lebeck
ICCD
2004
IEEE
87views Hardware» more  ICCD 2004»
14 years 5 months ago
Fetch Halting on Critical Load Misses
As the performance gap between processors and memory systems increases, the CPU spends more time stalled waiting for data from main memory. Critical long latency instructions, suc...
Nikil Mehta, Brian Singer, R. Iris Bahar, Michael ...
ICPP
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Data Transfers between Processes in an SMP System: Performance Study and Application to MPI
— This paper focuses on the transfer of large data in SMP systems. Achieving good performance for intranode communication is critical for developing an efficient communication s...
Darius Buntinas, Guillaume Mercier, William Gropp