Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an AMD64 hardware extension for lock-free data structures and transactional memory. It provides a speculative region that atomically exec...
Jae-Woong Chung, Luke Yen, Stephan Diestelhorst, M...
The increasing availability of multi-core and multiprocessor architectures provides new opportunities for improving the performance of many computer simulations. Markov Chain Mont...
Jonathan M. R. Byrd, Stephen A. Jarvis, A. H. Bhal...
Present-day parallel computers often face the problems of large software Overheadsfor process switching and interprocessor communication. These problems are addressed by the Multi...
Herbert H. J. Hum, Kevin B. Theobald, Guang R. Gao
Load latency remains a signi cant bottleneck in dynamically scheduled pipelined processors. Load speculation techniques have been proposed to reduce this latency. Dependence Predi...
Hybrid processors are HW/SW co-designed processors that leverage blocked-execution, the execution of regions of instructions as atomic blocks, to facilitate aggressive speculative...