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HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Hardware Support for Prescient Instruction Prefetch
This paper proposes and evaluates hardware mechanisms for supporting prescient instruction prefetch--an approach to improving single-threaded application performance by using help...
Tor M. Aamodt, Paul Chow, Per Hammarlund, Hong Wan...
ASPLOS
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Stealth prefetching
Prefetching in shared-memory multiprocessor systems is an increasingly difficult problem. As system designs grow to incorporate larger numbers of faster processors, memory latency...
Jason F. Cantin, Mikko H. Lipasti, James E. Smith
MASCOTS
2001
13 years 8 months ago
Aggregating Caches: A Mechanism for Implicit File Prefetching
We introduce the aggregating cache, and demonstrate how it can be used to reduce the number of file retrieval requests made by a caching client, improving storage system performan...
Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long
SC
1995
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Architectural Mechanisms for Explicit Communication in Shared Memory Multiprocessors
The goal of this work is to explore architectural mechanisms for supporting explicit communication in cachecoherent shared memory multiprocessors. The motivation stems from the ob...
Umakishore Ramachandran, Gautam Shah, Anand Sivasu...