For decades now, the notion of “performance” has been synonymous with “speed” (as measured in FLOPS, short for floating-point operations per second). Unfortunately, this ...
ions Sriram Krishnamoorthy½ Umit Catalyurek¾ Jarek Nieplocha¿ Atanas Rountev½ P. Sadayappan½ ½ Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, ¾ Dept. of Biomedical Informatics T...
The need to allow threads to abort an attempt to acquire a lock (sometimes called a timeout) is an interesting new requirement driven by state-of-the-art database applications wit...
The performance requirements for contemporary microprocessors are increasing as rapidly as their number of applications grows. By accelerating the clock, performance can be gained...
The load/store queue (LSQ) is one of the most complex parts of contemporary processors. Its latency is critical for the processor performance and it is usually one of the processo...