Chip-multiprocessors are becoming the dominant vehicle for general-purpose processing, and parallel software will be needed to effectively utilize them. This parallel software is ...
This paper proposes and evaluates hardware mechanisms for supporting prescient instruction prefetch--an approach to improving single-threaded application performance by using help...
Tor M. Aamodt, Paul Chow, Per Hammarlund, Hong Wan...
With the scaling of technology and the need for higher performance and more functionality, power dissipation is becoming a major bottleneck for microprocessor designs. Pipeline ba...
Hai Li, Swarup Bhunia, Yiran Chen, T. N. Vijaykuma...
Value prediction is a relatively new technique to increase the Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) in future microprocessors. An important problem when designing a value predictor...
Bart Goeman, Hans Vandierendonck, Koenraad De Boss...
Abstract— The continuing divergence of processor and memory speeds has led to the increasing reliance on larger caches which have become major consumers of area and power in embe...