ISCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 9 months ago
2012
IEEE
Memory system reliability is a serious and growing concern in modern servers. Existing chipkill-level memory protection mechanisms suffer from several drawbacks. They activate a l...
ISCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 9 months ago
2012
IEEE
Smartphones represent one of the fastest growing markets, providing significant hardware/software improvements every few months. However, supporting these capabilities reduces the...
ISCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 9 months ago
2012
IEEE
Most modern cores perform a highly-associative translation look aside buffer (TLB) lookup on every memory access. These designs often hide the TLB lookup latency by overlapping it...
ISCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 9 months ago
2012
IEEE
When multiple processor (CPU) cores and a GPU integrated together on the same chip share the off-chip main memory, requests from the GPU can heavily interfere with requests from t...
ISCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 9 months ago
2012
IEEE
Modern DRAMs have multiple banks to serve multiple memory requests in parallel. However, when two requests go to the same bank, they have to be served serially, exacerbating the h...
ISCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 9 months ago
2012
IEEE
Soft error reliability has become a first-order design criterion for modern microprocessors. Architectural Vulnerability Factor (AVF) modeling is often used to capture the probab...
ISCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 9 months ago
2012
IEEE
To increase datacenter energy efficiency, we need memory systems that keep pace with processor efficiency gains. Currently, servers use DDR3 memory, which is designed for high b...
ISCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 9 months ago
2012
IEEE
Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) is the building block of modern main memory systems. DRAM cells must be periodically refreshed to prevent loss of data. These refresh operation...
ISCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 9 months ago
2012
IEEE
Power consumption is a primary concern for microprocessor designers. Lowering the supply voltage of processors is one of the most effective techniques for improving their energy e...
ISCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 9 months ago
2012
IEEE
Chip multiprocessors enable continued performance scaling with increasingly many cores per chip. As the throughput of computation outpaces available memory bandwidth, however, the...