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ISCA
1995
IEEE
110views Hardware» more  ISCA 1995»
13 years 11 months ago
Optimization of Instruction Fetch Mechanisms for High Issue Rates
Recent superscalar processors issue four instructions per cycle. These processors are also powered by highly-parallel superscalar cores. The potential performance can only be expl...
Thomas M. Conte, Kishore N. Menezes, Patrick M. Mi...
SIGMETRICS
2003
ACM
147views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2003»
14 years 22 days ago
Effect of node size on the performance of cache-conscious B+-trees
In main-memory databases, the number of processor cache misses has a critical impact on the performance of the system. Cacheconscious indices are designed to improve performance b...
Richard A. Hankins, Jignesh M. Patel
MICRO
2003
IEEE
135views Hardware» more  MICRO 2003»
14 years 23 days ago
Generational Cache Management of Code Traces in Dynamic Optimization Systems
A dynamic optimizer is a runtime software system that groups a program’s instruction sequences into traces, optimizes those traces, stores the optimized traces in a softwarebase...
Kim M. Hazelwood, Michael D. Smith
WMPI
2004
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
Scalable cache memory design for large-scale SMT architectures
The cache hierarchy design in existing SMT and superscalar processors is optimized for latency, but not for bandwidth. The size of the L1 data cache did not scale over the past dec...
Muhamed F. Mudawar
ISVLSI
2008
IEEE
158views VLSI» more  ISVLSI 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Improving Energy Efficiency of Configurable Caches via Temperature-Aware Configuration Selection
Active power used to be the primary contributor to total power dissipation of CMOS designs, but with the technology scaling, the share of leakage in total power consumption of dig...
Hamid Noori, Maziar Goudarzi, Koji Inoue, Kazuaki ...