Monitoring is an important concept in network management as it helps network operators to
determine the behavior of a network and the status of its components. Traffic engineering …

Computer architecture simulators play an important role in advancing computer architecture
research. With wider research directions and the increased number of simulators that have …

Future processors will likely have large on-chip caches with a possibility of dedicating an
entire die for on-chip storage in a 3D stacked design. With the ever growing disparity …

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 …

Genomics is transforming medicine and our understanding of life in fundamental ways.
Genomics data, however, is far outpacing Moore» s Law. Third-generation sequencing …

Software cache-based side channel attacks are a serious new class of threats for computers.
Unlike physical side channel attacks that mostly target embedded cryptographic devices …

Belady's algorithm is optimal but infeasible because it requires knowledge of the future. This
paper explains how a cache replacement algorithm can nonetheless learn from Belady's …

We present a simple architectural mechanism called dynamic information flow tracking that
can significantly improve the security of computing systems with negligible performance …

With power density and hence cooling costs rising exponentially, processor packaging can
no longer be designed for the worst case, and there is an urgent need for runtime processor …

Portable, embedded systems place ever-increasing demands on high-performance, low-
power microprocessor design. Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is a well …