Parallel programs that modify shared data in a cachecoherent multiprocessor with a write-invalidate coherence protocol create ownership overhead in the form of ownership acquisiti...
Ever scaling process technology makes embedded systems more vulnerable to soft errors than in the past. One of the generic methods used to fight soft errors is based on duplicati...
Sri Hari Krishna Narayanan, Seung Woo Son, Mahmut ...
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...
Miss rate curves (MRCs) are useful in a number of contexts. In our research, online L2 cache MRCs enable us to dynamically identify optimal cache sizes when cache-partitioning a s...
David K. Tam, Reza Azimi, Livio Soares, Michael St...
To cope with the increasing difference between processor and main memory speeds, modern computer systems use deep memory hierarchies. In the presence of such hierarchies, the perf...
Margaret Martonosi, Anoop Gupta, Thomas E. Anderso...