The memory overhead introduced by directories constitutes a major hurdle in the scalability of cc-NUMA architectures, which makes the shared-memory paradigm unfeasible for very la...
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. ...
Value prediction is a relatively new technique to increase the Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) in future microprocessors. An important problem when designing a value predictor...
Bart Goeman, Hans Vandierendonck, Koenraad De Boss...
The use of the Java programming language for implementing server-side application logic is increasing in popularity, yet there is very little known about the architectural require...
Harold W. Cain, Ravi Rajwar, Morris Marden, Mikko ...
This paper introduces a router delay model that accurately models key aspects of modern routers. The model accounts for the pipelined nature of contemporary routers, the specific ...