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HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Improving the Throughput of Synchronization by Insertion of Delays
Efficiency of synchronization mechanisms can limit the parallel performance of many shared-memory applications. In addition, the ever increasing performance gap between processor...
Ravi Rajwar, Alain Kägi, James R. Goodman
ICCD
2006
IEEE
97views Hardware» more  ICCD 2006»
14 years 6 months ago
Pesticide: Using SMT Processors to Improve Performance of Pointer Bug Detection
Pointer bugs associated with dynamically-allocated objects resulting in out-of-bounds memory access are an important class of software bugs. Because such bugs cannot be detected e...
Jin-Yi Wang, Yen-Shiang Shue, T. N. Vijaykumar, Sa...
IEEEPACT
2000
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Dynamic Branch Prediction for a VLIW Processor
This paper describes the design of a dynamic branchpredictorfor a VLIW processor. The developed branch predictor predicts the direction of a branch, i.e., taken or not taken, and ...
Jan Hoogerbrugge
IEEEPACT
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
The OpenTM Transactional Application Programming Interface
Transactional Memory (TM) simplifies parallel programming by supporting atomic and isolated execution of user-identified tasks. To date, TM programming has required the use of l...
Woongki Baek, Chi Cao Minh, Martin Trautmann, Chri...
ICPPW
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Hardware Microkernels for Heterogeneous Manycore Systems
Abstract— The migration away from power-hungry, speculative execution procesors towards manycore architectures is good news for the embedded and real-time systems community. Comm...
Jason Agron, David L. Andrews