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ASPLOS
1996
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1996
ACM
Branch prediction is an important mechanism in modern microprocessor design. The focus of research in this area has been on designing new branch prediction schemes. In contrast, v...
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper explores the role of branch predictor organization in power/energy/performance tradeoffs for processor design. We find that as a general rule, to reduce overall energy ...
ASPLOS
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2006
ACM
Virtualization is increasingly being used to address server management and administration issues like flexible resource allocation, service isolation and workload migration. In a...
ISCA
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
1999
IEEE
In the pursuit of instruction-level parallelism, significant demands are placed on a processor's instruction delivery mechanism. Delivering the performance necessary to meet ...
CODES
2004
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2004
IEEE
There is a growing need for accurate power models at the system level. Memory structures such as caches, Branch Target Buffers (BTBs), and register files occupy significant area i...