The growing disparity between processor and memory speeds has caused memory bandwidth to become the performance bottleneck for many applications. In particular, this performance g...
Using simulations of a complex system such as a Web Application Server provides us with a tool that allows the running of tests without using the resources needed in a real system...
Ramon Nou, Jordi Guitart, David Carrera, Jordi Tor...
Testingthe performance scalabilityof parallelprograms can be a time consuming task, involving many performance runs for different computer configurations, processor numbers, and p...
Allen D. Malony, Vassilis Mertsiotakis, Andreas Qu...
Conventional cache models are not suited for real-time parallel processing because tasks may flush each other’s data out of the cache in an unpredictable manner. In this way th...
Anca Mariana Molnos, Marc J. M. Heijligers, Sorin ...
Multitasking on reconfigurable logic can achieve very high silicon reusability. However, configuration latency is a major limitation and it can largely degrade the system performa...