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MICRO
2008
IEEE
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16 years 1 months ago
Prefetch-Aware DRAM Controllers
Existing DRAM controllers employ rigid, non-adaptive scheduling and buffer management policies when servicing prefetch requests. Some controllers treat prefetch requests the same ...
Chang Joo Lee, Onur Mutlu, Veynu Narasiman, Yale N...
LCTRTS
2007
Springer
16 years 25 days ago
Compiler-managed partitioned data caches for low power
Set-associative caches are traditionally managed using hardwarebased lookup and replacement schemes that have high energy overheads. Ideally, the caching strategy should be tailor...
Rajiv A. Ravindran, Michael L. Chu, Scott A. Mahlk...
SIGMETRICS
2004
ACM
103views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2004»
16 years 3 days ago
Myths and realities: the performance impact of garbage collection
This paper explores and quantifies garbage collection behavior for three whole heap collectors and generational counterparts: copying semi-space, mark-sweep, and reference counti...
Stephen M. Blackburn, Perry Cheng, Kathryn S. McKi...
SIGOPSE
1994
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
New Directions for Integrated Circuit Cards Operating Systems
Integrated circuit cards or smart cards are now well-known. Applications such as electronic purses (cash units stored in cards), subscriber identification cards used in cellular te...
Pierre Paradinas, Jean-Jacques Vandewalle
USENIX
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Protection Strategies for Direct Access to Virtualized I/O Devices
Commodity virtual machine monitors forbid direct access to I/O devices by untrusted guest operating systems in order to provide protection and sharing. However, both I/O memory ma...
Paul Willmann, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox