This paper describes a general framework for the modeling, design, simulation, and prototyping of large scale systems. The framework uses a coherent set of tools that model the sy...
A key challenge in architecting a CMP with many cores is maintaining cache coherence in an efficient manner. Directory-based protocols avoid the bandwidth overhead of snoop-based ...
Jason Zebchuk, Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan, Moinuddin...
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...
Prior research shows that database system performance is dominated by off-chip data stalls, resulting in a concerted effort to bring data into on-chip caches. At the same time, hi...
Nikos Hardavellas, Ippokratis Pandis, Ryan Johnson...
Runtime monitoring support serves as a foundation for the important tasks of providing security, performing debugging, and improving performance of applications. Often runtime mon...