Mispredicted branches and loads that miss in the cache cause the majority of retirement stalls experienced by sequential processors; we call these critical instructions. Despite t...
Data-dependent (DD) permutations (DDP) are discussed as a cryptographic primitive for the design of fast hardware, firmware, and software encryption systems. DDP can be performed...
Nikolay A. Moldovyan, Peter A. Moldovyanu, Douglas...
Java-based middleware, and application servers in particular, are rapidly gaining importance as a new class of workload for commercial multiprocessor servers. SPEC has recognized ...
Martin Karlsson, Kevin E. Moore, Erik Hagersten, D...
The growing class of portable systems, such as personal computing and communication devices, has resulted in a new set of system design requirements, mainly characterized by domin...
Inki Hong, Darko Kirovski, Gang Qu, Miodrag Potkon...
Hardware performance monitoring is the basis of modern performance analysis tools for application optimization. We are interested in providing such performance analysis tools for t...