Much of the improvement in computer performance over the last twenty years has come from faster transistors and architectural advances that increase parallelism. Historically, par...
Stephen W. Keckler, William J. Dally, Daniel Maski...
Microprocessors and memory systems su er from a growing gap in performance. We introduce Active Pages, a computation model which addresses this gap by shifting data-intensive comp...
Alewife is a multiprocessor architecture that supports up to 512 processing nodes connected over a scalable and cost-effective mesh network at a constant cost per node. The MIT Al...
Anant Agarwal, Ricardo Bianchini, David Chaiken, K...
The SHRIMP cluster-computing system has progressed to a point of relative maturity; a variety of applications are running on a 16-node system. We have enough experience to underst...
Matthias A. Blumrich, Richard Alpert, Yuqun Chen, ...
This paper develops and validates an analytical model for evaluating various types of architectural alternatives for shared-memory systems with processors that aggressively exploi...
Daniel J. Sorin, Vijay S. Pai, Sarita V. Adve, Mar...