Chip multicore processors (CMPs) have emerged as the dominant architecture choice for
modern computing platforms and will most likely continue to be dominant well into the …

To meet the needs of a diverse range of workloads, asymmetric multicore processors
(AMPs) have been proposed, which feature cores of different microarchitecture or ISAs …

Single-ISA heterogeneous multi-core processors are typically composed of small (eg, in-
order) power-efficient cores and big (eg, out-of-order) high-performance cores. The …

On multicore systems contention for shared resources occurs when memory-intensive
threads are co-scheduled on cores that share parts of the memory hierarchy, such as last …

As a central part of resource management, the OS thread scheduler must maintain the
following, simple, invariant: make sure that ready threads are scheduled on available cores …

It is well known that the placement of threads and memory plays a crucial role for
performance on NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory-Access) systems. The conventional wisdom is …

Heterogeneous architectures that integrate a mix of big and small cores are very attractive
because they can achieve high single-threaded performance while enabling high …

Future heterogeneous single-ISA multicore processors will have an edge in potential
performance per watt over comparable homogeneous processors. To fully tap into that …

Distributed and parallel computing environments are becoming cheap and commonplace.
The availability of large numbers of CPU's makes it possible to process more data at higher …

Execution time is no longer the only metric by which computational systems are judged. In
fact, explicitly sacrificing raw performance in exchange for energy savings is becoming a …