Publications by Michael Ferdman

A Case for Specialized Processors for Scale-Out Workloads

Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi, Mohammad Alisafaee, Michael Ferdman, Yusuf Onur Koçberber, Stavros Volos, Ilknur Cansu Kaynak, Adrian Daniel Popescu, Al Mutaz Adileh, Dorde Jevdic

Emerging scale-out workloads need extensive amounts of computational resources. However, datacenters using modern server hardware face physical constraints in space and power, limiting further expansion and requiring improvements in the computational densi ...

Ieee Computer Soc2014

Clearing the Clouds: A Study of Emerging Scale-out Workloads on Modern Hardware

Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi, Mohammad Alisafaee, Michael Ferdman, Yusuf Onur Koçberber, Stavros Volos, Ilknur Cansu Kaynak, Al Mutaz Adileh, Dorde Jevdic, Adrian Daniel Popescu

Emerging scale-out workloads require extensive amounts of computational resources. However, data centers using modern server hardware face physical constraints in space and power, limiting further expansion and calling for improvements in the computational ...

2012

Scale-Out Processors

Babak Falsafi, Michael Ferdman, Boris Robert Grot, Yusuf Onur Koçberber, Pejman Lotfi Kamran, Stavros Volos, Javier Picorel Obando, Al Mutaz Adileh, Dorde Jevdic

Scale-out datacenters mandate high per-server throughput to get the maximum benefit from the large TCO investment. Emerging applications (e.g., data serving and web search) that run in these datacenters operate on vast datasets that are not accommodated by ...

Ieee2012

Quantifying the Mismatch between Emerging Scale-Out Applications and Modern Processors

Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi, Michael Ferdman, Mohammad Alisafaee, Yusuf Onur Koçberber, Stavros Volos, Ilknur Cansu Kaynak, Adrian Daniel Popescu, Al Mutaz Adileh, Dorde Jevdic

Emerging scale-out workloads require extensive amounts of computational resources. However, data centers using modern server hardware face physical constraints in space and power, limiting further expansion and calling for improvements in the computational ...

Association for Computing Machinery2012

Toward Dark Silicon in Servers

Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi, Michael Ferdman

Server chips will not scale beyond a few tens to low hundreds of cores, and an increasing fraction of the chip in future technologies will be dark silicon that we cannot afford to power. Specialized multicore processors, however, can leverage the underutil ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Proactive Instruction Fetch

Babak Falsafi, Michael Ferdman, Ilknur Cansu Kaynak

2011

Cuckoo Directory: A Scalable Directory for Many-Core Systems

Babak Falsafi, Michael Ferdman, Pejman Lotfi Kamran, Ken Balet

Growing core counts have highlighted the need for scalable on-chip coherence mechanisms. The increase in the number of on-chip cores exposes the energy and area costs of scaling the directories. Duplicate-tag based directories require highly associative st ...

IEEE Press2011

TurboTag: Lookup Filtering to Reduce Coherence Directory Power

Babak Falsafi, Michael Ferdman, Pejman Lotfi Kamran, Daniel Crisan

On-chip coherence directories of today’s multi-core systems are not energy efficient. Coherence directories dissipate a significant fraction of their power on unnecessary lookups when running commercial server and scientific workloads. These workloads have ...

ACM2010

Making Address-Correlated Prefetching Practical

Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi, Michael Ferdman

Despite a decade of research demonstrating its efficacy, address-correlated prefetching has never been implemented in a shipping processor because it requires megabytes of metadata—too large to store practically on chip. New storage-, latency-, and bandwid ...

2010

Near-Optimal Cache Block Placement with Reactive Nonuniform Cache Architectures

Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi, Michael Ferdman

The growing core counts and caches of modern processors result in data access latency becoming a function of the data's physical location in the cache. Thus, the placement of cache blocks determines the cache's performance. Reactive nonuniform cache archit ...

2010