Conditional branch induced control hazards cause significant performance loss in modern out-of-order superscalar processors. Dynamic branch prediction techniques help alleviate th...
As energy-related costs have become a major economical factor for IT infrastructures and data-centers, companies and the research community are being challenged to find better an...
In order to address the high performance I/O needs of HPC and enterprise applications, modern interconnection fabrics, such as InfiniBand and more recently, 10GigE, rely on network...
Since the first results published in 1973 by Liu and Layland on the Rate Monotonic (RM) and Earliest Deadline First (EDF) algorithms, a lot of progress has been made in the schedu...
Quality of service (QoS) mechanisms allowing users to request for turn-around time guarantees for their jobs have recently generated much interest. In our previous work we had des...
Mohammad Islam, Pavan Balaji, Gerald Sabin, P. Sad...