Load balancing is critical for distributed storage to meet strict service-level objectives
(SLOs). It has been shown that a fast cache can guarantee load balancing for a clustered …

Cloud computing has emerged as the leading paradigm for information technology
businesses. Cloud computing provides a platform to manage and deliver computing …

Scale-out datacenters mandate high per-server throughput to get the maximum benefit from
the large TCO investment. Emerging applications (eg, data serving and web search) that run …

Energy consumption is one of the top challenges for achieving the next generation of
supercomputing. Codesign of hardware and software is critical for improving energy …

In the late 1990s, powerful economic forces led to the adoption of commodity desktop
processors in high-performance computing. This transformation has been so effective that …

Distributed in-memory key-value stores (KVSs), such as memcached, have become a critical
data serving layer in modern Internet-oriented datacenter infrastructure. Their performance …

In this paper, we uncover a novel and imminent threat to an emerging computing paradigm:
MPSoCs built with 3rd party IP NoCs. We demonstrate that a compromised NoC (C-NoC) …

Heterogeneous multicore architectures have the potential to improve energy efficiency by
integrating power-efficient wimpy cores with high-performing brawny cores. However, it is an …

Specialization of datacenter resources brings performance and energy improvements in
response to the growing scale and diversity of cloud applications. Yet heterogeneous …

0001. This application claims the benefit of US Provi sional Application Ser. No. 62/065.449,
filed Oct. 17, 2014, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. 0002 The subject …