Hybrid processors are HW/SW co-designed processors that leverage blocked-execution, the execution of regions of instructions as atomic blocks, to facilitate aggressive speculative...
This paper quantifies the effect of architectural design decisions on the performance of TxLinux. TxLinux is a Linux kernel modified to use transactions in place of locking prim...
Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E...
Memory trace analysis is an important technology for architecture research, system software (i.e., OS, compiler) optimization, and application performance improvements. Many appro...
Yungang Bao, Mingyu Chen, Yuan Ruan, Li Liu, Jianp...
Intense research on virtual machines has highlighted the need for flexible software architectures that allow quick evaluation of new design and implementation techniques. The inte...
Instruction Set Simulators (ISSes) are important tools for cross-platform software development. The simulation speed is a major concern and many approaches have been proposed to i...
Lei Gao, Stefan Kraemer, Rainer Leupers, Gerd Asch...