Gordon: An improved architecture for data-intensive applications

IEEE Micro

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 121-130

  Caulfield, Adrian M ^a   Grupp, Laura M ^a   Swanson, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster architecture; Data centric; Flash memory; Solid state storage

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA CENTRIC; DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATION; DESIGN SPACES; DISK-BASED; FLASH TRANSLATION LAYER; LOW POWER PROCESSORS; PROGRAMMING SYSTEM; SOLID-STATE STORAGE; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

FLASH MEMORY;

EID: 77949643491     PISSN: 02721732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MM.2010.18     Document Type: Article

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