HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Designing thermal management policies for today's power-dense server clusters is currently a challenge, since it is difficult to predict the exact temperature and performance...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Power control is becoming a key challenge for effectively operating a modern data center. In addition to reducing operating costs, precisely controlling power consumption is an es...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Portable, embedded systems place ever-increasing demands on high-performance, low-power microprocessor design. Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is a well-known techniq...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Hard-to-predict branches depending on longlatency cache-misses have been recognized as a major performance obstacle for modern microprocessors. With the widening speed gap between...
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HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Interconnection networks-on-chip (NOCs) are rapidly replacing other forms of interconnect in chip multiprocessors and system-on-chip designs. Existing interconnection networks use...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) attempts to keep a dynamically scheduled processor's resources busy with work from multiple independent threads. Threads with longlatency st...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Dynamic binary translation (DBT) is a runtime instrumentation technique commonly used to support profiling, optimization, secure execution, and bug detection tools for application...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper describes a comprehensive approach for using the memory controller to improve DRAM energy efficiency and manage DRAM power. We make three contributions: (1) we describe...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Power consumption within the disk-based storage subsystem forms a substantial portion of the overall energy footprint in commodity systems. Researchers have proposed external cach...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Estimating the maximum power and thermal characteristics of a processor is essential for designing its power delivery system, packaging, cooling, and power/thermal management sche...