Pipeline Spectroscopy is a new technique that allows us to measure the cost of each cache miss. The cost of a miss is displayed (graphed) as a histogram, which represents a precis...
Thomas R. Puzak, Allan Hartstein, Philip G. Emma, ...
Virtual execution environments have become increasingly useful in system implementation, with dynamic translation techniques being an important component for performance-critical ...
Nested paging is a hardware solution for alleviating the software memory management overhead imposed by system virtualization. Nested paging complements existing page walk hardwar...
Ravi Bhargava, Ben Serebrin, Francesco Spadini, Sr...
One of the key tenets of database system design is making efficient use of storage and memory resources. However, existing database system implementations are actually extremely ...
Reducing the energy footprint of data centers continues to receive significant attention due to both its financial and environmental impact. There are numerous methods that limi...
Navin Sharma, Sean Barker, David Irwin, Prashant J...