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ACMMSP
2004
ACM
125views Hardware» more  ACMMSP 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Improving trace cache hit rates using the sliding window fill mechanism and fill select table
As superscalar processors become increasingly wide, it is inevitable that the large set of instructions to be fetched every cycle will span multiple noncontiguous basic blocks. Th...
Muhammad Shaaban, Edward Mulrane
IEEEPACT
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
CacheScouts: Fine-Grain Monitoring of Shared Caches in CMP Platforms
As multi-core architectures flourish in the marketplace, multi-application workload scenarios (such as server consolidation) are growing rapidly. When running multiple application...
Li Zhao, Ravi R. Iyer, Ramesh Illikkal, Jaideep Mo...
EUROPAR
1999
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Annotated Memory References: A Mechanism for Informed Cache Management
Processor cycle time continues to decrease faster than main memory access times, placing higher demands on cache memory hierarchy performance. To meet these demands, conventional ...
Alvin R. Lebeck, David R. Raymond, Chia-Lin Yang, ...
ICPP
1999
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Optimization of Instruction Fetch for Decision Support Workloads
Instruction fetch bandwidth is feared to be a major limiting factor to the performance of future wide-issue aggressive superscalars. In this paper, we focus on Database applicatio...
Alex Ramírez, Josep-Lluis Larriba-Pey, Carl...
VLDB
2005
ACM
121views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Improving Database Performance on Simultaneous Multithreading Processors
Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) allows multiple threads to supply instructions to the instruction pipeline of a superscalar processor. Because threads share processor resources,...
Jingren Zhou, John Cieslewicz, Kenneth A. Ross, Mi...