Processing nodes of the Cray XT and IBM Blue Gene Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) systems are composed of multiple execution units, sharing memory and network subsystems. Thes...
Sadaf R. Alam, Pratul K. Agarwal, Scott S. Hampton...
Contention for shared resources on multicore processors remains an unsolved problem in existing systems despite significant research efforts dedicated to this problem in the past...
Sergey Zhuravlev, Sergey Blagodurov, Alexandra Fed...
An upgrade from dual-core to quad-core AMD processor on the Cray XT system at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Leadership Computing Facility (LCF) has resulted in significa...
Sadaf R. Alam, Richard F. Barrett, Heike Jagode, J...
—The ongoing move to chip multiprocessors (CMPs) permits greater sharing of last-level cache by processor cores but this sharing aggravates the cache contention problem, potentia...
Chi Xu, Xi Chen, Robert P. Dick, Zhuoqing Morley M...