The emergence of the SCORM specification has shed a light toward standardization of e-learning which makes the reusability and interoperability of learning resources feasible. How...
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...
Simultaneous Multithreading machines fetch and execute instructions from multiple instruction streams to increase system utilization and speedup the execution of jobs. When there ...
Effective use of the memory hierarchy is critical for achieving high performance on embedded systems. We focus on the class of streaming applications, which is increasingly preval...
Janis Sermulins, William Thies, Rodric M. Rabbah, ...
Conditional branch induced control hazards cause significant performance loss in modern out-of-order superscalar processors. Dynamic branch prediction techniques help alleviate th...