Quantifying the mismatch between emerging scale-out applications and modern processors

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Ferdman, Michael ^a   Adileh, Almutaz ^b   Kocberber, Onur ^b   Volos, Stavros ^b   Alisafaee, Mohammad ^b   Jevdjic, Djordje ^b   Kaynak, Cansu ^b   Popescu, Adrian Daniel ^b   Ailamaki, Anastasia ^b   Falsafi, Babak ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Design; Measurement; Performance

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK SUITES; COMPUTATIONAL DENSITY; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; DATA CENTERS; DATA MEMORY; MICRO ARCHITECTURES; MODERN PROCESSORS; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE COUNTERS; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; POWER EFFICIENCY; PROCESSOR CORES; SERVER PROCESSORS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DESIGN; HARDWARE; MEASUREMENTS;

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 84870520103     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: 15577333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2382553.2382557     Document Type: Article

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