Internet services like the world-wide web and multimedia applications like News- and Video-on-Demand have become very popular over the last years. Due to the large number of users ...
Bugs in kernel extensions remain one of the main causes of poor operating system reliability despite proposed techniques that isolate extensions in separate protection domains to ...
Miguel Castro, Manuel Costa, Jean-Philippe Martin,...
—With the appearance of massively parallel and inexpensive platforms such as the G80 generation of NVIDIA GPUs, more real-life applications will be designed or ported to these pl...
fipical translation lookaside buffers (TLBs)can map a far smaller region of memory than application footprints demand, and the cost of handling TLB misses therefore limits the per...
Zhen Fang, Lixin Zhang, John B. Carter, Wilson C. ...
High-performance processors employ aggressive speculation and prefetching techniques to increase performance. Speculative memory references caused by these techniques sometimes br...
Onur Mutlu, Hyesoon Kim, David N. Armstrong, Yale ...