Cloud Computing is a promising paradigm in comparison with traditional information
technology approaches, in which organizations and enterprises adopt elastic cloud services …

Modern processors are using increasingly larger sized on-chip caches. Also, with each
CMOS technology generation, there has been a significant increase in their leakage energy …

The drive for higher performance and energy efficiency in data-centers has influenced
trends toward increased power and cooling requirements in the facilities. Since enterprise …

The ability to cap peak power consumption is a desirable feature in modern data centers for
energy budgeting, cost management, and efficient power delivery. Dynamic voltage and …

As chip multiprocessors (CMP) become the main trend in processor development, various
power and thermal management strategies have recently been proposed to optimize system …

Miss rate curves (MRCs) are useful in a number of contexts. In our research, online L2 cache
MRCs enable us to dynamically identify optimal cache sizes when cache-partitioning a …

Future many-core microprocessors are likely to be heterogeneous, by design or due to
variability and defects. The latter type of heterogeneity is especially challenging due to its …

Optimizing the performance of a multi-core microprocessor within a power budget has
recently received a lot of attention. However, most existing solutions are centralized and …

Data centers attempt to maximize return on investment by achieving high levels of utilization.
This means deploying the maximum number of servers possible within existing power …

As processors seek more resource efficiency, they increasingly need to target multiple goals
at the same time, such as a level of performance, power consumption, and average …