Congestion management is likely to become a critical issue in interconnection networks, as increasing power consumption and cost concerns will lead to the use of smaller networks....
The address sequence on the processor-memory bus can reveal abundant information about the control flow of a program. This can lead to critical information leakage such as encryp...
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As chip multiprocessors (CMPs) become increasingly mainstream, architects have likewise become more interested in how best to share a cache hierarchy among multiple simultaneous t...
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Multiprocessor operating systems (OSs) pose several unique and conflicting challenges to System Virtual Machines (System VMs). For example, most existing system VMs resort to gan...
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Thread-level speculation (TLS) has proven to be a promising method of extracting parallelism from both integer and scientific workloads, targeting speculative threads that range ...
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