Data centers are critical, energy-hungry infrastructures that run large-scale Internet-based
services. Energy consumption models are pivotal in designing and optimizing energy …

As embedded systems grow more complex and as new applications such as IoT require
many design constraints, sophisticated design space exploration techniques are essential in …

The open-source and community-supported gem5 simulator is one of the most popular tools
for computer architecture research. This simulation infrastructure allows researchers to …

Energy consumed for transferring data across the processor memory hierarchy constitutes a
large fraction of total system energy consumption, and this fraction has steadily increased …

Pointer chasing is a fundamental operation, used by many important data-intensive
applications (eg, databases, key-value stores, graph processing workloads) to traverse …

The performance of computer systems is often limited by the bandwidth of their memory
channels, but further increasing the bandwidth is challenging under the stringent pin and …

Memory bandwidth has been one of the most critical system performance bottlenecks. As a
result, the HMC (Hybrid Memory Cube) has recently been proposed to improve DRAM …

To meet the performance and energy efficiency demands of emerging complex and variable
workloads, heterogeneous many-core architectures are increasingly being deployed …

Architectural power modeling tools are widely used by the computer architecture community
for rapid evaluations of high-level design choices and design space explorations. Currently …

DRAM has been a de facto standard for main memory, and advances in process technology
have led to a rapid increase in its capacity and bandwidth. In contrast, its random access …