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ISCA
2011
IEEE
290views Hardware» more  ISCA 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
Increasing the effectiveness of directory caches by deactivating coherence for private memory blocks
To meet the demand for more powerful high-performance shared-memory servers, multiprocessor systems must incorporate efficient and scalable cache coherence protocols, such as thos...
Blas Cuesta, Alberto Ros, María Engracia G&...
ISCA
2003
IEEE
110views Hardware» more  ISCA 2003»
14 years 27 days ago
Guided Region Prefetching: A Cooperative Hardware/Software Approach
Despite large caches, main-memory access latencies still cause significant performance losses in many applications. Numerous hardware and software prefetching schemes tolerate th...
Zhenlin Wang, Doug Burger, Steven K. Reinhardt, Ka...
TVLSI
2010
13 years 2 months ago
C-Pack: A High-Performance Microprocessor Cache Compression Algorithm
Microprocessor designers have been torn between tight constraints on the amount of on-chip cache memory and the high latency of off-chip memory, such as dynamic random access memor...
Xi Chen, Lei Yang, Robert P. Dick, Li Shang, Haris...
MDM
2005
Springer
165views Communications» more  MDM 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
STEP: Self-Tuning Energy-safe Predictors
Data access prediction has been proposed as a mechanism to overcome latency lag, and more recently as a means of conserving energy in mobile systems. We present a fully adaptive p...
James Larkby-Lahet, Ganesh Santhanakrishnan, Ahmed...
ISCA
2010
IEEE
214views Hardware» more  ISCA 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Translation caching: skip, don't walk (the page table)
This paper explores the design space of MMU caches that accelerate virtual-to-physical address translation in processor architectures, such as x86-64, that use a radix tree page t...
Thomas W. Barr, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner