Hardware compressed main memory: Operating system support and performance evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1219-1233

  Abali, B ^a   Banikazemi, M ^a   Shen, X ^a   Franke, H ^a   Poff, D E ^a   Smith, T B ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory and cache performance; Memory compression; Memory management; Webserver performance

Indexed keywords

CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATA COMPRESSION; SERVERS;

MEMORY COMPRESSION;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 0035511062     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.966496     Document Type: Article

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