Advances in circuit and integration technology are continuously boosting the speed of microprocessors. One of the main challenges presented by such developments is the effective u...
—Bulk memory copying and initialization is one of the most ubiquitous operations performed in current computer systems by both user applications and Operating Systems. While many...
Xiaowei Jiang, Yan Solihin, Li Zhao, Ravishankar I...
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...
To keep up with a large degree of instruction level parallelism (ILP), the Itanium 2 cache systems use a complex organization scheme: load/store queues, banking and interleaving. ...
William Jalby, Christophe Lemuet, Sid Ahmed Ali To...
Traditional coherence protocols present a set of difficult tradeoffs: the reliance of snoopy protocols on broadcast and ordered interconnects limits their scalability, while dire...