ISPASS
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
Continuous circuit miniaturization and increased process variability point to a future with diminishing returns from dynamic voltage scaling. Operation below Vcc-min has been prop...
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
—Hadoop is a popular open-source implementation of MapReduce for the analysis of large datasets. To manage storage resources across the cluster, Hadoop uses a distributed user-le...
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
—In the past ten years, computer architecture has seen a paradigm shift from emphasizing single thread performance to energy efficient, throughput oriented, chip multiprocessors...
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
—Graphics processors (GPU) offer the promise of more than an order of magnitude speedup over conventional processors for certain non-graphics computations. Because the ften prese...
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
—Until recently, most high-end scientific applications have been immune to performance problems caused by NonUniform Memory Access (NUMA). However, current trends in micro-proces...
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
—Software instrumentation is a powerful and flexible technique for analyzing the dynamic behavior of programs. By inserting extra code in an application, it is possible to study...
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
Abstract—We generate and provide miniature synthetic benchmark clones for modern workloads to solve two pre-silicon design challenges, namely: 1) huge simulation time (weeks to m...
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
—While many-core accelerator architectures, such as today’s Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), offer orders of magnitude more raw computing power than contemporary CPUs, their m...
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
—The ongoing move to chip multiprocessors (CMPs) permits greater sharing of last-level cache by processor cores but this sharing aggravates the cache contention problem, potentia...