Programs written in languages that provide direct access to memory through pointers often contain memory-related faults, which may cause non-deterministic failures and even securi...
James A. Clause, Ioannis Doudalis, Alessandro Orso...
As silicon process technology scales deeper into the nanometer regime, hardware defects are becoming more common. Such defects are bound to hinder the correct operation of future ...
Kypros Constantinides, Onur Mutlu, Todd M. Austin,...
Despite large caches, main-memory access latencies still cause significant performance losses in many applications. Numerous hardware and software prefetching schemes tolerate th...
Zhenlin Wang, Doug Burger, Steven K. Reinhardt, Ka...
Until recently, a steadily rising clock rate and other uniprocessor microarchitectural improvements could be relied upon to consistently deliver increasing performance for a wide ...
Guilherme Ottoni, Ram Rangan, Adam Stoler, David I...
Symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs) connected with low-latency networks provide attractive building blocks for software distributed shared memory systems. Two distinct approaches hav...