0272-1732/03/$17.00  2003 IEEE Published by the IEEE computer Society The next generation of today’s highperformance processors incorporate large leveltwo caches on the processor die. For example, the IBM Power5 will contain a 1.92-Mbyte L2 cache, the Hewlett-Packard PA8700 will contain 2.25 Mbytes of unified on-chip cache, and the Intel Itanium2 will contain 6 Mbytes of on-chip L3 cache. Cach...

0272-1732/03/$17.00  2003 IEEE Published by the IEEE computer Society The next generation of today’s highperformance processors incorporate large leveltwo caches on the processor die. For example, the IBM Power5 will contain a 1.92-Mbyte L2 cache, the Hewlett-Packard PA8700 will contain 2.25 Mbytes of unified on-chip cache, and the Intel Itanium2 will contain 6 Mbytes of on-chip L3 cache. Cach...

We consider the planar Ising model in a finite square box and we replace temperature parameter with function depending on magnetization. This creates feedback from spin configuration onto parameter, which drives system towards critical point. Using finite-size scaling results of Cerf Messikh (Theory Relat Fields 150(1–2):193–217, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-010-0272-0 ), show that, whe...

0272-1732/00/$10.00  2000 IEEE The need to access anything from anywhere has increased the role of distributed file servers in computing. Distributed file systems provide local file system semantics for access to remote storage. This allows network clients to incorporate the remote storage into their local file system. File semantics are well understood by users and applications, making distri...

0272-1732/99/$10.00  1999 IEEE Hardware verification accounts for a considerable portion of the costs in the microprocessor design process. Traditionally, designers have verified microprocessor designs using simulation techniques that help find most design faults. However, simulation never guarantees the correct operation of the final product. Some design faults are very difficult to detect by...

0272-1732/03/$17.00  2003 IEEE Published by the IEEE computer Society The 30th International Symposium on Computer Architecture featured an evening panel and dinner cosponsored by Intel and IEEE Micro. To kick off this panel, Daniel Citron presented “MisSPECulation: Partial and Misleading Use of SPEC CPU2000 in Computer Architecture Conference” (Proc. 30th Ann. Int’l Symposium Computer Archite...

0272-1732/00/$10.00  2000 IEEE We live in an age of ever-accelerating technological change. The signal event at the end of the second millennium was almost certainly the explosion of the Internet. In 1995 there were 20 million Internet users; by 1998 there were 160 million. We could have 500 million users worldwide by 2003, with over 14 countries having more than 40% of their population online...

0272-1732/00/$10.00  2000 IEEE Motivated by necessity, change is inevitable. The buggy whip manufacturer realized this on seeing a Ford Model A drive past. Until the late 18th century, circumnavigation of the globe was a near impossibility without an accurate way to measure longitude. It wasn’t until John Harrison dedicated most of his life to developing an accurate timepiece that the problem ...