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COMPUTE
2010
ACM
13 years 11 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
14 years 28 days 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
14 years 1 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
99views Hardware» more  ISCA 1996»
13 years 11 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
13 years 11 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