Caching techniques have been an efficient mechanism for mitigating the effects of the
processor-memory speed gap. Traditional multi-level SRAM-based cache hierarchies …

Many multi-core processors employ a large last-level cache (LLC) shared among the
multiple cores. Past research has demonstrated that sharing-oblivious cache management …

For computer designers, understanding the characteristics of workloads running on current
and future computer systems is of utmost importance during microprocessor design a …

Data mining constitutes an important class of scientific and commercial applications. Recent
advances in data extraction techniques have created vast data sets, which require …

3D integration technology greatly increases transistor density while providing faster on-chip
communication. 3D implementations of processors can simultaneously provide both latency …

Caches made of non-volatile memory technologies, such as magnetic RAM (MRAM) and
phase-change RAM (PRAM), offer dramatically different power-performance characteristics …

Genome sequences contain hundreds of millions of DNA base pairs. Finding the degree of
similarity between two genomes requires executing a compute-intensive dynamic …

Enabled by high-speed networking in commercial, scientific, and government settings, the
realm of high performance is burgeoning with greater amounts of computational and storage …

We present Charon, a cloud-backed storage system capable of storing and sharing big data
in a secure, reliable, and efficient way using multiple cloud providers and storage …

The large amount of biological data available in the current times, makes it necessary to use
tools and applications based on sophisticated and efficient algorithms, developed in the …