High availability is an increasingly important requirement for enterprise systems, often valued more than performance. Systems designed for high availability typically use redunda...
Nidhi Aggarwal, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Norman ...
Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) systems reflect choices from three key design dimensions: conflict detection, version management, and conflict resolution. Previously propos...
Jayaram Bobba, Kevin E. Moore, Haris Volos, Luke Y...
The peak power consumption of hardware components affects their power supply, packaging, and cooling requirements. When the peak power consumption is high, the hardware components...
Bruno Diniz, Dorgival Olavo Guedes Neto, Wagner Me...
We introduce a novel chip fabrication technique called “brick and mortar”, in which chips are made from small, pre-fabricated ASIC bricks and bonded in a designer-specified a...
Martha Mercaldi Kim, Mojtaba Mehrara, Mark Oskin, ...
With increasing speed and power density, high-performance memories, including FB-DIMM (Fully Buffered DIMM) and DDR2 DRAM, now begin to require dynamic thermal management (DTM) a...
Jiang Lin, Hongzhong Zheng, Zhichun Zhu, Howard Da...