In this paper, we examine the trade-offs in performance and area due to customizing the datapath and instruction set architecture of a soft VLIW processor implemented in a high-den...
Mazen A. R. Saghir, Mohamad El-Majzoub, Patrick Ak...
SMT processors are widely used in high performance computing tasks. However, with the improved performance of the SMT architecture, the utilization of their functional units is sig...
Ahmed Youssef, Mohamed Zahran, Mohab Anis, Mohamed...
This paper describes the first infrastructure for integrated studies of the performance and thermal behavior of storage systems. Using microbenchmarks running on this infrastructu...
Youngjae Kim, Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Anand Sivasubra...
Bulk data movement occurs commonly in server workloads and their performance is rather poor on today’s microprocessors. We propose the use of small dedicated copy engines, and p...
Li Zhao, Ravi R. Iyer, Srihari Makineni, Laxmi N. ...
Input Buffered Switches with Virtual Output Queues(VOQ) design to avoid Head-Of-Line problems, is a primary design of switches that can be scalable to very high speeds. However, t...