The size of supercomputers in numbers of processors is growing exponentially. Today’s largest supercomputers have upwards of a hundred thousand processors and tomorrow’s may ha...
Mustafa M. Tikir, Michael Laurenzano, Laura Carrin...
Modern processors improve instruction level parallelism by speculation. The outcome of data and control decisions is predicted, and the operations are speculatively executed and o...
Dirk Grunwald, Artur Klauser, Srilatha Manne, Andr...
It is often possible to greatly improve the performance of a hardware system via the use of predictive (speculative) techniques. For example, the performance of out-of-order micro...
Alan Fern, Robert Givan, Babak Falsafi, T. N. Vija...
—Various studies have pointed out the debilitating effects of OS Jitter on the performance of parallel applications on large clusters such as the ASCI Purple and the Mare Nostrum...
The growth in complexity of modern systems makes it increasingly difficult to extract high-performance. The software stacks for such systems typically consist of multiple layers a...