Two major trends in high-performance computing, namely, larger numbers of cores and the
growing size of on-chip cache memory, are creating significant challenges for evaluating the …

Large core counts and complex cache hierarchies are increasing the burden placed on
commonly used simulation and modeling techniques. Although analytical models provide …

Single-ISA heterogeneous multi-core processors are typically composed of small (eg, in-
order) power-efficient cores and big (eg, out-of-order) high-performance cores. The …

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have numerous configuration and design options,
including core frequency, number of parallel compute units (CUs), and available memory …

Applications running concurrently on a multicore system interfere with each other at the main
memory. This interference can slow down different applications differently. Accurately …

Asymmetric multi-core architectures have recently emerged as a promising alternative in a
power and thermal constrained environment. They typically integrate cores with different …

We present Continuously Adaptive Dynamic Voltage/Frequency scaling in Linux systems
running on Intel i7 and AMD Phenom II processors. By exploiting slack, inherent in memory …

Detailed architectural simulators suffer from a long development cycle and extremely long
evaluation times. This longstanding problem is further exacerbated in the multi-core …

Design space exploration (DSE) for microarchitecture parameters is an essential stage in
microprocessor design to explore the trade-offs among performance, power, and area …

Limit studies on Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) provide apparently
contradictory conclusions. On the one hand early limit studies report that DVFS is effective at …