1 Switched system-area networks enable thousands of storage devices to be shared and directly accessed by end hosts, promising databases and filesystems highly scalable, reliable ...
Trends in VLSI technology scaling demand that future computing devices be narrowly focused to achieve high performance and high efficiency, yet also target the high volumes and lo...
Ken Mai, Tim Paaske, Nuwan Jayasena, Ron Ho, Willi...
Cloud computing has seen tremendous growth, particularly for commercial web applications. The on-demand, pay-as-you-go model creates a flexible and cost-effective means to access c...
Keith R. Jackson, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Krishna Mu...
As the thermal wall becomes the dominant factor limiting VLSI circuit performance, and the interconnect wires become the primary power consumer, power efficiency of onchip data th...
Renshen Wang, Evangeline F. Y. Young, Ronald L. Gr...
Multi-core systems are the current dominant trend in computer processors. However, kernel network layers often do not fully exploit multi-core architectures. This is due to issues...