Extreme application scalability

Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) is a hardware technique that increases processor throughput by issuing instructions simultaneously from multiple threads. However, while SMT can be added to an existing microarchitecture with relatively low overhead, ...

Stream processors are high-performance programmable processors optimized to run media applications. Recent work has shown these processors to be more area- and energy-efficient than conventional programmable architectures. This paper explores the ...

Numerous studies have found that subsequent application software maintenance requires a significant amount of a data processing department's resources. Some of the major research in this area [1, 2, 3, 4] revealed the following:• in 1972, 30.1 percent ...