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COMPUTE
2010
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Performance evaluation of speculation-based protocol for read-only transactions
In the literature, speculation-based protocols have been proposed to improve the performance of read-only transactions (ROTs) over the existing two-phase locking (2PL) and snapsho...
Thirumalaisamy Ragunathan, P. Krishna Reddy
EUROPAR
2005
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Improving Instruction Delivery with a Block-Aware ISA
Instruction delivery is a critical component for wide-issue processors since its bandwidth and accuracy place an upper limit on performance. The processor front-end accuracy and ba...
Ahmad Zmily, Earl Killian, Christos Kozyrakis
CF
2006
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Kilo-instruction processors, runahead and prefetching
There is a continuous research effort devoted to overcome the memory wall problem. Prefetching is one of the most frequently used techniques. A prefetch mechanism anticipates the ...
Tanausú Ramírez, Alex Pajuelo, Olive...
ISCA
1996
IEEE
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15 years 7 months ago
Performance Comparison of ILP Machines with Cycle Time Evaluation
Many studies have investigated performance improvement through exploiting instruction-level parallelism (ILP) with a particular architecture. Unfortunately, these studies indicate...
Tetsuya Hara, Hideki Ando, Chikako Nakanishi, Masa...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Improving the Throughput of Synchronization by Insertion of Delays
Efficiency of synchronization mechanisms can limit the parallel performance of many shared-memory applications. In addition, the ever increasing performance gap between processor...
Ravi Rajwar, Alain Kägi, James R. Goodman