Computer architecture simulators play an important role in advancing computer architecture
research. With wider research directions and the increased number of simulators that have …

Large-scale datacenters (DCs) host tens of thousands of diverse applications each day.
However, interference between colocated workloads and the difficulty to match applications …

Architectural simulation is time-consuming, and the trend towards hundreds of cores is
making sequential simulation even slower. Existing parallel simulation techniques either …

Emerging scale-out workloads require extensive amounts of computational resources.
However, data centers using modern server hardware face physical constraints in space …

This paper introduces the Graphite open-source distributed parallel multicore simulator
infrastructure. Graphite is designed from the ground up for exploration of future multi-core …

Server chips will not scale beyond a few tens to low hundreds of cores, and an increasing
fraction of the chip in future technologies will be dark silicon that we cannot afford to power …

The explosive growth in digital data and its growing role in real-time decision support
motivate the design of high-performance database management systems (DBMSs) …

Increases in on-chip communication delay and the large working sets of server and scientific
workloads complicate the design of the on-chip last-level cache for multicore processors …

While research has shown that the agile chip design methodology is promising to sustain
the scaling of computing performance in a more efficient way, it is still of limited usage in …

Fine-grained dynamic voltage/frequency scaling (DVFS) demonstrates great promise for
improving the energy-efficiency of chip-multiprocessors (CMPs), which have emerged as a …