High-performance operating system controlled memory compression

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 701-704

  Yang, Lei ^a   Lekatsas, Haris ^b   Dick, Robert P ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compression; Virtual memory

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DATA COMPRESSION RATIO; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

MEMORY COMPRESSION DEADLOCK; MEMORY MANAGEMENT; PHYSICAL MEMORY; VIRTUAL MEMORY;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547204184     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1146909.1147086     Document Type: Conference Paper

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