Translation Lookaside Buffers (TLBs) are a staple in modern computer systems and have a significant impact on overall system performance. Numerous prior studies have addressed TL...
- Bioinformatics applications such as gene and protein sequence matching algorithms are characterized by the need to process large amounts of data. While uni-processor performance ...
Ravi Kiran Karanam, Arun Ravindran, Arindam Mukher...
We explore the emerging application area of physics-based simulation for computer animation and visual special effects. In particular, we examine its parallelization potential and...
Christopher J. Hughes, Radek Grzeszczuk, Eftychios...
In this paper we present an exhaustive evaluation of the memory subsystem in a chip-multiprocessor (CMP) architecture composed of 16 cores. The characterization is performed making...
Transactional Coherence and Consistency (TCC) is a novel coherence scheme for shared memory multiprocessors that uses programmer-defined transactions as the fundamental unit of p...