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ICCD
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
We analyze the effect of errors in branch predictors, a representative example of speculative processor subsystems, to motivate the necessity for fault tolerance in such subsystem...
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper explores the role of branch predictor organization in power/energy/performance tradeoffs for processor design. We find that as a general rule, to reduce overall energy ...
ASPLOS
1996
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1996
ACM
Branch prediction is an important mechanism in modern microprocessor design. The focus of research in this area has been on designing new branch prediction schemes. In contrast, v...
CGO
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
Static compilers use profiling to predict run-time program behavior. Generally, this requires multiple input sets to capture wide variations in run-time behavior. This is expensiv...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2008
ACM
Multi-core processors, with low communication costs and high availability of execution cores, will increase the use of execution and compilation models that use short threads to e...