This paper presents an examination of different cache and processor configurations assuming transistor densities will continue to increase as they have in the past. While in the s...
Matthew K. Farrens, Gary S. Tyson, Andrew R. Plesz...
In 1989, the RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) group at U. C. Berkeley built a prototype disk array called RAID-I. The bandwidth delivered to clients by RAID-I was seve...
Ann L. Drapeau, Ken Shirriff, John H. Hartman, Eth...
This paper evaluates the tradeoffs involved in the design of the software-extended memory system of Alewife, a multiprocessor architecturethat implements coherentsharedmemorythrou...
Wepresentaunijiedapp?'each to assess thet7adeoff of architecture techniques that affect mean memory access time. The architectural features we consider inciude cache hit Tati...
We comparethe performance of software-supported shared memory on a general-purpose network to hardware-supported shared memory on a dedicated interconnect. Up to eight processors,...
Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Peter J. Keleher, ...
A growing number of applications require high capacity, high throughput tertiary storage systems 1 2 . We are investigating how data striping ideas apply to arrays of magnetic tap...