' The coming of giga-bit networks makes possible the realization ofa single nationwide virtual computer comprised of a variety of geographically distributed highpe6ormance mac...
We present a detailed characterization of instruction cache performance for IBM’s J2EE-enabled web server, WebSphere Application Server (WAS). When running two J2EE benchmarks o...
Priya Nagpurkar, Harold W. Cain, Mauricio J. Serra...
Java-based middleware, and application servers in particular, are rapidly gaining importance as a new class of workload for commercial multiprocessor servers. SPEC has recognized ...
Martin Karlsson, Kevin E. Moore, Erik Hagersten, D...
This paper proposes a new hardware technique for using one core of a CMP to prefetch data for a thread running on another core. Our approach simply executes a copy of all non-cont...
As transistor density continues to grow at an exponential rate in accordance to Moore’s law, the goal for many Chip Multi-Processor (CMP) systems is to scale the number of on-ch...
Brian M. Rogers, Anil Krishna, Gordon B. Bell, Ken...