Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are com-plex heterogeneous and distributed
computing systems, typically integrating and interconnecting a large number of subsystems …

Simulators help computer architects optimize system designs. The limited performance of
simulators even of moderate size and detail makes the approach infeasible for design-space …

Optimizing processors for specific application (s) can substantially improve energy-
efficiency. With the end of Dennard scaling, and the corresponding reduction in …

Cloud computing enables end users to execute high-performance computing applications
by renting the required computing power. This pay-for-use approach enables small …

Simulators and empirical profiling data are often used to understand how suitable a specific
hardware architecture is for an application. However, simulators can be slow, and empirical …

To reduce the capital investment required to acquire and maintain a high performance
computing cluster, today many HPC users are moving to cloud. When deploying an …

Evaluating cache performance is becoming critically important to predict the overall
performance of out-of-order processors. Non-blocking caches, which are very common in …

With the advent of multi-many-core processors and hardware accelerators, choosing a
specific architecture to renew a supercomputer can become very tedious. This decision …

A detailed profile of exascale applications helps to understand the computation,
communication and memory requirements for exascale systems and provides the insight …

Exascale applications will exploit a massive amount of parallelism. The analysis of
computation and communication requirements at thread-level provides important insight into …