Multicore technology is making concurrent programs increasingly pervasive. Unfortunately, it is difficult to deliver reliable concurrent programs, because of the huge and non-det...
DRAM is facing severe scalability challenges in sub-45nm technology nodes due to precise charge placement and sensing hurdles in deep-submicron geometries. Resistive memories, suc...
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Temperature is a dominant factor in the performance, reliability, and leakage power consumption of modern processors. As a result, increasing numbers of researchers evaluate therm...
Francisco J. Mesa-Martinez, Ehsan K. Ardestani, Jo...
Instruction-grain lifeguards monitor the events of a running application at the level of individual instructions in order to identify and help mitigate application bugs and securi...
Evangelos Vlachos, Michelle L. Goodstein, Michael ...
Contention for shared resources on multicore processors remains an unsolved problem in existing systems despite significant research efforts dedicated to this problem in the past...
Sergey Zhuravlev, Sergey Blagodurov, Alexandra Fed...
Data center power infrastructure incurs massive capital costs, which typically exceed energy costs over the life of the facility. To squeeze maximum value from the infrastructure,...
Steven Pelley, David Meisner, Pooya Zandevakili, T...
Computer systems often fail due to many factors such as software bugs or administrator errors. Diagnosing such production run failures is an important but challenging task since i...
Ding Yuan, Haohui Mai, Weiwei Xiong, Lin Tan, Yuan...