By providing direct data transfer between storage and client, network-attached storage devices have the potential to improve scalability for existing distributed file systems (by...
Garth A. Gibson, David Nagle, Khalil Amiri, Fay W....
The Cell processor is a heterogeneous multi-core processor with one Power Processing Engine (PPE) core and eight Synergistic Processing Engine (SPE) cores. Each SPE has a directly...
Kevin O'Brien, Kathryn M. O'Brien, Zehra Sura, Ton...
The architectures which support modern supercomputing machinery are as diverse today, as at any point during the last twenty years. The variety of processor core arrangements, thr...
Simon D. Hammond, J. A. Smith, Gihan R. Mudalige, ...
Driven by continuing scaling of Moore's law, chip multiprocessors and systems-on-a-chip are expected to grow the core count from dozens today to hundreds in the near future. ...
Boris Grot, Joel Hestness, Stephen W. Keckler, Onu...
We propose a low overhead, on-line memory monitoring scheme utilizing a set of novel hardware counters. The counters act like pressure gauges indicating the marginal gain in the n...