For transactional memory (TM) to achieve widespread acceptance, transactions should not be limited to the physical resources of any specific hardware implementation. TM systems s...
JaeWoong Chung, Chi Cao Minh, Austen McDonald, Tra...
Growing on-chip wire delays are motivating architectural features that expose on-chip communication to the compiler. EDGE architectures are one example of communication-exposed mi...
Katherine E. Coons, Xia Chen, Doug Burger, Kathryn...
Virtualization is increasingly being used to address server management and administration issues like flexible resource allocation, service isolation and workload migration. In a...
Stephen T. Jones, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi ...
Concurrency bugs are among the most difficult to test and diagnose of all software bugs. The multicore technology trend worsens this problem. Most previous concurrency bug detect...
While hardware instruction caches are present in virtually all general-purpose and high-performance microprocessors today, many embedded processors use SRAM or scratchpad memories...