This paper presents FlexiTaint, a hardware accelerator for dynamic taint propagation. FlexiTaint is implemented as an in-order addition to the back-end of the processor pipeline, ...
Guru Venkataramani, Ioannis Doudalis, Yan Solihin,...
Power-Efficient DRAM Speculation (PEDS) is a power optimization targeted at broadcast-based sharedmemory multiprocessor systems that speculatively access DRAM in parallel with the...
Nidhi Aggarwal, Jason F. Cantin, Mikko H. Lipasti,...
Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) attempts to keep a dynamically scheduled processor's resources busy with work from multiple independent threads. Threads with longlatency st...
Samantika Subramaniam, Milos Prvulovic, Gabriel H....
Power control is becoming a key challenge for effectively operating a modern data center. In addition to reducing operating costs, precisely controlling power consumption is an es...
Designing thermal management policies for today's power-dense server clusters is currently a challenge, since it is difficult to predict the exact temperature and performance...