Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) and chip multiprocessing (CMP) both allow a chip to achieve greater throughput, but their relative energy-efficiency and thermal properties are s...
Yingmin Li, David Brooks, Zhigang Hu, Kevin Skadro...
Pipeline gating has been proposed for reducing wasted speculative execution due to branch mispredictions. As processors become deeper or wider, pipeline gating becomes more import...
Haitham Akkary, Srikanth T. Srinivasan, Rajendar K...
Recent research suggests that there are large variations in a cache's spatial usage, both within and across programs. Unfortunately, conventional caches typically employ fixe...
Chi F. Chen, Se-Hyun Yang, Babak Falsafi, Andreas ...
Power dissipation has become one of the most critical factors for the continued development of both high-end and low-end computer systems. The successful design and evaluation of ...
Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Mary J...
In language-based security, confidentiality and integrity policies conveniently specify the permitted flows of information between different parts of a program with diverse levels...