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ASPDAC
2012
ACM
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12 years 3 months ago
GreenDroid: An architecture for the Dark Silicon Age
— The Dark Silicon Age kicked off with the transition to multicore and will be characterized by a wild chase for seemingly ever-more insane architectural designs. At the heart o...
Nathan Goulding-Hotta, Jack Sampson, Qiaoshi Zheng...
CASES
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Limitations of special-purpose instructions for similarity measurements in media SIMD extensions
Microprocessor vendors have provided special-purpose instructions such as psadbw and pdist to accelerate the sumof-absolute differences (SAD) similarity measurement. The usefulne...
Asadollah Shahbahrami, Ben H. H. Juurlink, Stamati...
USENIX
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Making the "Box" Transparent: System Call Performance as a First-Class Result
For operating system intensive applications, the ability of designers to understand system call performance behavior is essential to achieving high performance. Conventional perfo...
Yaoping Ruan, Vivek S. Pai
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
Providing safe, user space access to fast, solid state disks
Emerging fast, non-volatile memories (e.g., phase change memories, spin-torque MRAMs, and the memristor) reduce storage access latencies by an order of magnitude compared to state...
Adrian M. Caulfield, Todor I. Mollov, Louis Alex E...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Mode grouping for more effective generalized scheduling of dynamic dataflow applications
For a number of years, dataflow concepts have provided designers of digital signal processing systems with environments capable of expressing high-level software architectures as ...
William Plishker, Nimish Sane, Shuvra S. Bhattacha...