Future CMPs will combine many simple cores with deep cache hierarchies. With more cores, cache resources per core are fewer, and must be shared carefully to avoid poor utilization...
Junli Gu, Steven S. Lumetta, Rakesh Kumar, Yihe Su...
Contention management is an important design component to a transactional memory system. Without effective contention management to ensure forward progress, a transactional memory...
Geoffrey Blake, Ronald G. Dreslinski, Trevor N. Mu...
Over the last twenty years the interfaces for accessing persistent storage within a computer system have remained essentially unchanged. Simply put, seek, read and write have de...
Xiangyong Ouyang, David W. Nellans, Robert Wipfel,...
Queues are commonly used in multithreaded programs for synchronization and communication. However, because software queues tend to be too expensive to support finegrained paralle...
Sanghoon Lee, Devesh Tiwari, Yan Solihin, James Tu...
Most shared memory systems maximize performance by unpredictably resolving memory races. Unpredictable memory races can lead to nondeterminism in parallel programs, which can suff...
Derek Hower, Polina Dudnik, Mark D. Hill, David A....
The ever increasing size and complexity of Operating System (OS) kernel code bring an inevitable increase in the number of security vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attack...
Traditional architectural designs are normally focused on CPUs and have been often decoupled from I/O considerations. They are inefficient for high-speed network processing with a...
Dynamic languages such as Javascript are the de-facto standard for web applications. However, generating efficient code for dynamically-typed languages is a challenge, because it...
Owen Anderson, Emily Fortuna, Luis Ceze, Susan Egg...
The number of cores in a single chip multiprocessor is expected to grow in coming years. Likewise, aggregate on-chip cache capacity is increasing fast and its effective utilizatio...
Flash memory based solid state drives (SSDs) have shown a great potential to change storage infrastructure fundamentally through their high performance and low power. Most recent ...