— There is growing incentive to reduce the power consumed by large-scale data centers that host online services such as banking, retail commerce, and gaming. Virtualization is a ...
Dara Kusic, Jeffrey O. Kephart, James E. Hanson, N...
Abstract—Advances in chip-multiprocessor processing capabilities has led to an increased power consumption and temperature hotspots. Maintaining the on-chip temperature is import...
Vinay Hanumaiah, Sarma B. K. Vrudhula, Karam S. Ch...
ABSTRACT Motivated by data value locality and quality tolerance present in multimedia applications, we propose a new micro-architecture, Region-level Approximate Computation Buffer...
Throughput servers using simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) processors are becoming an important paradigm with products such as Sun's Niagara and IBM Power5. Unfortunately, thr...
Left unchecked, the fundamental drive to increase peak performance using tens of thousands of power hungry components will lead to intolerable operating costs and failure rates. R...