Multicore processors have become ubiquitous in today’s systems, but exploiting the parallelism they offer remains difficult, especially for legacy application and applications ...
Energy in sensor networks is a distributed, non-transferable resource. Over time, differences in energy availability are likely to arise. Protocols like routing trees may concent...
Geoffrey Werner Challen, Jason Waterman, Matt Wels...
Software or hardware data cache prefetching is an efficient way to hide cache miss latency. However effectiveness of the issued prefetches have to be monitored in order to maximi...
Massively multicore processors, like, for example, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), provide, at a comparable price, a one order of magnitude higher peak performance than traditio...
Abdullah Gharaibeh, Samer Al-Kiswany, Sathish Gopa...
On-chip caches represent a sizeable fraction of the total power consumption of microprocessors. Although large caches can significantly improve performance, they have the potentia...