Mispredicted branches and loads that miss in the cache cause the majority of retirement stalls experienced by sequential processors; we call these critical instructions. Despite t...
Compiler optimizations are often driven by specific assumptions about the underlying architecture and implementation of the target machine. For example, when targeting shared-mem...
Jack L. Lo, Susan J. Eggers, Henry M. Levy, Sujay ...
Performance prediction methods for component-based software systems aim at supporting design decisions of software architects during early development stages. With the increased a...
Performance prediction is valuable in different areas of computing. The popularity of lease-based access to high performance computing resources particularly benefits from accurate...
Javier Delgado, Seyed Masoud Sadjadi, Marion Brigh...
In processors with several levels of hardware resource sharing, like CMPs in which each core is an SMT, the scheduling process becomes more complex than in processors with a singl...
Petar Radojkovic, Vladimir Cakarevic, Javier Verd&...