Internet services like the world-wide web and multimedia applications like News- and Video-on-Demand have become very popular over the last years. Due to the large number of users ...
— Modern CPUs operate at GHz frequencies, but the latencies of memory accesses are still relatively large, in the order of hundreds of cycles. Deeper cache hierarchies with large...
Konrad Malkowski, Greg M. Link, Padma Raghavan, Ma...
Whereas the established interconnection networks (ICTN) achieve low latency by operating in the linear region, i.e. oversizing the fabric, the recent strict cost and power constrai...
Replication is a key technique for improving fault tolerance. Replication can also improve application performance under some circumstances, but can have the opposite effect under...
Power consumption of the Information and Communication Technology sector (ICT) has recently become a key challenge. In particular, actions to improve energy-efficiency of Internet...
Carla Panarello, Alfio Lombardo, Giovanni Schembra...