Hybrid branch predictors combine the predictions of multiple single-level or two-level branch predictors. The prediction-combining hardware -- the "meta-predictor" -may ...
Dirk Grunwald, Donald C. Lindsay, Benjamin G. Zorn
The Murϕ-based Hopper tool is a general purpose explicit model checker. Hopper leverages Murϕ’s class structure to implement new algorithms. Hopper differs from Murϕ in that i...
Dependence-aware transactional memory (DATM) is a recently proposed model for increasing concurrency of memory transactions without complicating their interface. DATM manages depe...
Hany E. Ramadan, Indrajit Roy, Maurice Herlihy, Em...
To continue to improve processor performance, microarchitects seek to increase the effective instruction level parallelism (ILP) that can be exploited in applications. A fundament...
Adaptive, or self-aware, computing has been proposed to help application programmers confront the growing complexity of multicore software development. However, existing approache...
Henry Hoffmann, Jonathan Eastep, Marco D. Santambr...