Compiler technology for multimedia extensions must effectively utilize not only the SIMD compute engines but also the various levels of the memory hierarchy: superword registers,...
Chun Chen, Jaewook Shin, Shiva Kintali, Jacqueline...
Region-based compilation repartitions a program into more desirable compilation units for optimization and scheduling, particularly beneficial for ILP architectures. With region-...
Set-associative caches are traditionally managed using hardwarebased lookup and replacement schemes that have high energy overheads. Ideally, the caching strategy should be tailor...
Rajiv A. Ravindran, Michael L. Chu, Scott A. Mahlk...
Chip multiprocessors (CMPs) are expected to be the building blocks for future computer systems. While architecting these emerging CMPs is a challenging problem on its own, program...
Ozcan Ozturk, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Mary Jane Irwin,...
Multiple memory module architecture offers higher performance by providing potentially doubled memory bandwidth. Two key problems in gaining high performance in this kind of archi...