Emerging scale-out workloads require extensive amounts of computational resources.
However, data centers using modern server hardware face physical constraints in space …

Is your memory hierarchy stop** your microprocessor from performing at the high level it
should be? Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk shows you how to resolve this problem …

The memory coherence problem in designing and implementing a shared virtual memory on
loosely coupled multiprocessors is studied in depth. Two classes of algorithms, centralized …

Recent high-performance processors employ sophisticated techniques to overlap and
simultaneously execute multiple computation and memory operations. Intuitively, these …

Increases in on-chip communication delay and the large working sets of server and scientific
workloads complicate the design of the on-chip last-level cache for multicore processors …

Locating moving objects in a video sequence is the first step of many computer vision
applications. Among the various motion-detection techniques, background subtraction …

The microprocessor industry is currently struggling with higher development costs and
longer design times that arise from exceedingly complex processors that are pushing the …

Prior research indicates that there is much spatial variation in applications' memory access
patterns. Modern memory systems, however, use small fixed-size cache blocks and as such …

Data prefetching, ie, the act of predicting an application's future memory accesses and
fetching those that are not in the on-chip caches, is a well-known and widely used approach …

In the late 1990s, our research group at DEC was one of a growing number of teams
advocating the CMP (chip multiprocessor) as an alternative to highly complex single …