HPCA
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2011
IEEE
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...
HPCA
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2011
IEEE
Contention management is an important design component to a transactional memory system. Without effective contention management to ensure forward progress, a transactional memory...
HPCA
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2011
IEEE
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...
HPCA
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2011
IEEE
Queues are commonly used in multithreaded programs for synchronization and communication. However, because software queues tend to be too expensive to support finegrained paralle...
HPCA
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2011
IEEE
Most shared memory systems maximize performance by unpredictably resolving memory races. Unpredictable memory races can lead to nondeterminism in parallel programs, which can suff...
HPCA
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2011
IEEE
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...
HPCA
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2011
IEEE
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...
HPCA
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2011
IEEE
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...
HPCA
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2011
IEEE
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...
HPCA
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2011
IEEE
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 ...