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ISCA
2007
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Hardware atomicity for reliable software speculation
Speculative compiler optimizations are effective in improving both single-thread performance and reducing power consumption, but their implementation introduces significant compl...
Naveen Neelakantam, Ravi Rajwar, Suresh Srinivas, ...
CGO
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Thread-Shared Software Code Caches
Software code caches are increasingly being used to amortize the runtime overhead of dynamic optimizers, simulators, emulators, dynamic translators, dynamic compilers, and other t...
Derek Bruening, Vladimir Kiriansky, Timothy Garnet...
ECRTS
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
WCET-Centric Software-controlled Instruction Caches for Hard Real-Time Systems
Cache memories have been extensively used to bridge the gap between high speed processors and relatively slower main memories. However, they are sources of predictability problems...
Isabelle Puaut
MICRO
2010
IEEE
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13 years 7 months ago
Explicit Communication and Synchronization in SARC
SARC merges cache controller and network interface functions by relying on a single hardware primitive: each access checks the tag and the state of the addressed line for possible...
Manolis Katevenis, Vassilis Papaefstathiou, Stamat...
IEEEPACT
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
The OpenTM Transactional Application Programming Interface
Transactional Memory (TM) simplifies parallel programming by supporting atomic and isolated execution of user-identified tasks. To date, TM programming has required the use of l...
Woongki Baek, Chi Cao Minh, Martin Trautmann, Chri...