Although they have been the main server technology for many years, multiprocessors are undergoing a renaissance due to multi-core chips and the attractive scalability properties of...
With the advent of chip multiprocessors, exploiting intra-transaction parallelism is an attractive way of improving transaction performance. However, exploiting intra-transaction ...
Christopher B. Colohan, Anastassia Ailamaki, J. Gr...
Snoopy cache coherence protocols broadcast requests to all nodes, reducing the latency of cache to cache transfer misses at the expense of increasing interconnect power. We propos...
This paper proposes a new hardware technique for using one core of a CMP to prefetch data for a thread running on another core. Our approach simply executes a copy of all non-cont...
Both commercial and scientific workloads benefit from concurrency and exhibit data sharing across threads/processes. The resulting sharing patterns are often fine-grain, with t...
Hemayet Hossain, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Michael C. Hua...