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ISCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1999
IEEE
Recent research advocates using general message predictors to learn and predict the coherence activity in distributed shared memory (DSM). By accurately predicting a message and t...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
Branch prediction has enabled microprocessors to increase instruction level parallelism (ILP) by allowing programs to speculatively execute beyond control boundaries. Although spe...
ICCD
2004
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2004
IEEE
Speculative Multi-Threading (SpMT) can improve single-threaded application performance using the multiple thread contexts available in current processors. We propose a minimal SpM...
ISCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
The load-store unit is a performance critical component of a dynamically-scheduled processor. It is also a complex and non-scalable component. Several recently proposed techniques...
ISCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2003
IEEE
While removing software bugs consumes vast amounts of human time, hardware support for debugging in modern computers remains rudimentary. Fortunately, we show that mechanisms for ...