ASPLOS
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1998
ACM
Database applications such as online transaction processing (OLTP) and decision support systems (DSS) constitute the largest and fastest-growing segment of the market for multipro...
ASPLOS
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1998
ACM
Advances in VLSI technology will enable chips with over a billion transistors within the next decade. Unfortunately, the centralized-resource architectures of modern microprocesso...
ASPLOS
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1998
ACM
Dynamic storage allocation has become increasingly important in many applications, in part due to the use of the object-oriented paradigm. At the same time, processor speeds are i...
ASPLOS
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1998
ACM
Our new out-of-order processor simulator, FastSim, uses two innovations to speed up simulation 8–15 times (vs. Wisconsin SimpleScalar) with no loss in simulation accuracy. First...
ASPLOS
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1998
ACM
In order to execute a program on a remote computer, it must first be transferred over a network. This transmission incurs the overhead of network latency before execution can beg...
ASPLOS
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1998
ACM
This paper proposes a technique that enables performing multi-cycle (multiplication, division, square-root ...) computations in a single cycle. The technique is based on the notio...
ASPLOS
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1998
ACM
As the gap between memory and processor speeds continues to widen, cache efficiency is an increasingly important component of processor performance. Compiler techniques have been...
ASPLOS
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1998
ACM
Thread-level speculation is a technique that enables parallel execution of sequential applications on a multiprocessor. This paper describes the complete implementation of the sup...
ASPLOS
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1998
ACM
Optimizations aimed at reducing the impact of memory operations on execution speed have long concentrated on improving cache performance. These efforts achieve a reasonable level...
ASPLOS
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1998
ACM
This paper describes the Network-Attached Secure Disk (NASD) storage architecture, prototype implementations of NASD drives, array management for our architecture, and three files...