With the CMOS transistors being scaled to sub 45nm and lower, Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) has become a major concern due to its impact on PMOS transistor aging pr...
Temperature is a dominant factor in the performance, reliability, and leakage power consumption of modern processors. As a result, increasing numbers of researchers evaluate therm...
Francisco J. Mesa-Martinez, Ehsan K. Ardestani, Jo...
Reference counting is a widely-used resource management idiom which maintains a count of references to each resource by incrementing the count upon an acquisition, and decrementing...
Michael Emmi, Ranjit Jhala, Eddie Kohler, Rupak Ma...
—Communication traces are integral to performance modeling and analysis of parallel programs. However, execution on a large number of nodes results in a large trace volume that i...
Recent benchmark suite releases such as Parsec specifically utilise the tightly coupled cores available in chipmultiprocessors to allow the use of newer, high performance, models ...
Nick Barrow-Williams, Christian Fensch, Simon Moor...