As the number of on-chip cores and memory demands of applications increase, judicious
management of cache resources has become not merely attractive but imperative. Cache …

Cache partitioning is now available in commercial hardware. In theory, software can
leverage cache partitioning to use the last-level cache better and improve performance. In …

Workload consolidation is very attractive for cloud platforms due to several reasons
including reduced infrastructure costs, lower energy consumption, and ease of …

In this paper we study the impact of sharing memory resources on five Google datacenter
applications: a web search engine, bigtable, content analyzer, image stitching, and protocol …

This paper describes a novel functional Built-in-Self-Test (BIST) method for microprocessors.
This technique is based on the fundamental principle that complex chips have embedded …

Workload consolidation, whether via use of virtualization or with lightweight, container-
based methods, is critically important for current and future datacenter and cloud computing …

Many emerging applications from various domains often exhibit heterogeneous memory
characteristics. When running in combination on parallel platforms, these applications …

The workloads in modern Chip-multiprocessors (CMP) are becoming increasingly
diversified, creating different resource demands on hardware substrate. It is necessary to …

On modern multicore machines, the memory management typically combines address
interleaving in hardware and random allocation in the operating system (OS) to improve …

While developing shared-memory programs, programmers often contend with the problem
of how many threads to create for best efficiency. Creating as many threads as the number of …