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2004
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Data Reuse Analysis Technique for Software-Controlled Memory Hierarchies
In multimedia and other streaming applications a significant portion of energy is spent on data transfers. Exploiting data reuse opportunities in the application, we can reduce th...
Ilya Issenin, Erik Brockmeyer, Miguel Miranda, Nik...
ISLPED
1995
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Reducing the frequency of tag compares for low power I-cache design
In current processors, the cache controller, which contains the cache directory and other logic such as tag comparators, is active for each instruction fetch and is responsible fo...
Ramesh Panwar, David A. Rennels
HPCA
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Hardware for Speculative Run-Time Parallelization in Distributed Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
Run-time parallelization is often the only way to execute the code in parallel when data dependence information is incomplete at compile time. This situation is common in many imp...
Ye Zhang, Lawrence Rauchwerger, Josep Torrellas
HPCA
2012
IEEE
12 years 3 months ago
Pacman: Tolerating asymmetric data races with unintrusive hardware
Data races are a major contributor to parallel software unreliability. A type of race that is both common and typically harmful is the Asymmetric data race. It occurs when at leas...
Shanxiang Qi, Norimasa Otsuki, Lois Orosa Nogueira...
ISCA
2003
IEEE
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14 years 23 days ago
Overcoming the Limitations of Conventional Vector Processors
Despite their superior performance for multimedia applications, vector processors have three limitations that hinder their widespread acceptance. First, the complexity and size of...
Christoforos E. Kozyrakis, David A. Patterson