—Large-scale online applications such as Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) require large amount of computing resources that support many players interacting simultaneous...
Parallelism can be used for major performance improvement in large Data warehouses (DW) with performance and scalability challenges. A simple low-cost shared-nothing architecture ...
Advances in VLSI technology will enable chips with over a billion transistors within the next decade. Unfortunately, the centralized-resource architectures of modern microprocesso...
Walter Lee, Rajeev Barua, Matthew Frank, Devabhakt...
Virtual Private Machines (VPM) provide a framework for Quality of Service (QoS) in CMP-based computer systems. VPMs incorporate microarchitecture mechanisms that allow shares of h...
This paper proposes and evaluates hardware mechanisms for supporting prescient instruction prefetch--an approach to improving single-threaded application performance by using help...
Tor M. Aamodt, Paul Chow, Per Hammarlund, Hong Wan...