Advances in VLSI technology will enable chips with over a billion transistors within the next decade. Unfortunately, the centralized-resource architectures of modern microprocesso...
Walter Lee, Rajeev Barua, Matthew Frank, Devabhakt...
Many parallel applications exhibit unpredictable communication between threads, leading to contention for shared objects. The choice of contention management strategy impacts stro...
Ryan Johnson, Radu Stoica, Anastasia Ailamaki, Tod...
Today’s data centers face extreme challenges in providing low latency. However, fair sharing, a principle commonly adopted in current congestion control protocols, is far from o...
The Cell BE processor provides both scalable computation power and flexibility, and it is already being adopted for many computational intensive applications like aerospace, defens...
Differentiated Services (DiffServ) is a promising architecture for the next generation Internet due to its scalable and flexible design. In DiffServ, scheduling disciplines play an...