Implications of cache asymmetry on server consolidation performance

2008 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, IISWC'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 24-32

  Apparao, Padma ^a   Iyer, Ravi ^a   Newell, Don ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENTS; DIE AREAS; PROCESS VARIABILITIES; REAL MEASUREMENTS; SERVER CONSOLIDATIONS; SHARED CACHES;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 56549089515     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IISWC.2008.4636088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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