The latest high-performance IBM PowerPC microprocessor, the POWER5 chip, poses challenges for performance model validation. The current stateof-the-art is to use simple hand-coded...
Robert H. Bell Jr., Rajiv R. Bhatia, Lizy K. John,...
Even after carefully tuning the memory characteristics to the application properties and the processor speed, during the execution of real applications there are times when the pr...
Aviral Shrivastava, Eugene Earlie, Nikil D. Dutt, ...
Dynamic correctness checking tools (a.k.a. lifeguards) can detect a wide array of correctness issues, such as memory, security, and concurrency misbehavior, in unmodified executa...
Olatunji Ruwase, Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, ...
Recent proposals for Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs) advocate speculative, or implicit, threading in which the hardware employs prediction to peel off instruction sequences (i.e., imp...
Chong-liang Ooi, Seon Wook Kim, Il Park, Rudolf Ei...
In profiling, a tradeoff exists between information and overhead. For example, hardware-sampling profilers incur negligible overhead, but the information they collect is consequen...
Tipp Moseley, Alex Shye, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Dirk ...