The disparity between microprocessor clock frequencies and memory latency is a primary reason why many demanding applications run well below peak achievable performance. Software c...
Joseph Gebis, Leonid Oliker, John Shalf, Samuel Wi...
Attackers and defenders of computer systems both strive to gain complete control over the system. To maximize their control, both attackers and defenders have migrated to low-leve...
Samuel T. King, Peter M. Chen, Yi-Min Wang, Chad V...
This paper presents Spinach, a new simulator toolset specifically designed to target programmable network interface architectures. Spinach models both system components that are ...
Historically, processor accesses to memory-mapped device registers have been marked uncachable to insure their visibility to the device. The ubiquity of snooping cache coherence, ...
Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Babak Falsafi, Mark D. Hil...
Estimating the maximum power and thermal characteristics of a processor is essential for designing its power delivery system, packaging, cooling, and power/thermal management sche...
Ajay M. Joshi, Lieven Eeckhout, Lizy Kurian John, ...