When making an engineering design decision, it is often necessary to consider its implications on both system performance and dependability. In this paper, we present a performabi...
Ann T. Tai, William H. Sanders, Leon Alkalai, Savi...
This paper is structured as follows. Section 2 gives an architectural description of BlueGene/L. Section 3 analyzes the issue of “computational noise” – the effect that the o...
Kei Davis, Adolfy Hoisie, Greg Johnson, Darren J. ...
The Merrimac supercomputer uses stream processors and a highradix network to achieve high performance at low cost and low power. The stream architecture matches the capabilities o...
Mattan Erez, Jung Ho Ahn, Ankit Garg, William J. D...
This paper explores the correlation of instruction counts and cache misses to runtime performance for a large family of divide and conquer algorithms to compute the Walsh–Hadama...
Trends in microprocessors of increasing die size and clock speed and decreasing feature sizes have fueled rapidly increasing performance. However, the limited improvements in DRAM...
Jinwoo Suh, Eun-Gyu Kim, Stephen P. Crago, Lakshmi...