ISCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 7 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 7 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 7 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...
ISCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 7 months ago
2012
IEEE
To address the real-time processing needs of large and growing amounts of data, modern software increasingly uses main memory as the primary data store for critical information. T...
ISCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 7 months ago
2012
IEEE
Recent improvements in architectural supports for virtualization have extended traditional hardware page walkers to traverse nested page tables. However, current twodimensional (2...
ISCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 7 months ago
2012
IEEE
Wide SIMD-based GPUs have evolved into a promising platform for running general purpose workloads. Current programmable GPUs allow even code with irregular control to execute well...
ISCA
2012
IEEE
11 years 7 months ago
2012
IEEE
The emergence of global-scale online services has galvanized scale-out software, characterized by splitting vast datasets and massive computation across many independent servers. ...