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...
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...
The rapid advancements of networking technology have boosted potential bandwidth to the point that the cabling is no longer the bottleneck. Rather, the bottlenecks lie at the cros...
Patrick Crowley, Marc E. Fiuczynski, Jean-Loup Bae...
Java-based middleware is a rapidly growing workload for high-end server processors, particularly Chip Multiprocessors (CMP). To help architects design future microprocessors to ru...
Martin Karlsson, Erik Hagersten, Kevin E. Moore, D...
In this paper, we study the instruction cache miss behavior of four modern commercial applications (a database workload, TPC-W, SPECjAppServer2002 and SPECweb99). These applicatio...