In this paper, the authors analyze the trade-offs in architecting stacked DRAM either as part of main memory or as a hardware-managed cache. Using stacked DRAM as part of main memory increases the effective capacity, but obtaining high performance from such a system requires Operating System (OS) support to migrate data at a page-granularity. Using ...

In this paper the authors present manifold, an open-source parallel simulation framework for multi-core architectures. It consists of a parallel simulation kernel, a set of micro-architecture components, and an integrated library of power, thermal, reliability, and energy models. Using the components as building blocks, users can assemble multi-core architecture simulation models and perform serial or ...

In this paper, the authors argue that the cloud computing industry faces many decision problems where operations research could add tremendous value. To this end, they provide an OR perspective on cloud computing in three ways. First, they compare the cloud computing process with the traditional pull supply chain and introduce the Cloud IT Supply ...

Hardware support for Global Address Spaces (GAS) has previously focused on providing efficient access across remote memories, typically using custom interconnects or high-level software layers. New technologies, such as Extoll, HyperShare, and NumaConnect now allow for cheaper ways to build GAS support into the data center, thus making high-performance coherent and non-coherent remote memory access ...