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HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
TCP: Tag Correlating Prefetchers
Although caches for decades have been the backbone of the memory system, the speed gap between CPU and main memory suggests their augmentation with prefetching mechanisms. Recentl...
Zhigang Hu, Margaret Martonosi, Stefanos Kaxiras
ISCA
2002
IEEE
95views Hardware» more  ISCA 2002»
14 years 14 days ago
Design Tradeoffs for the Alpha EV8 Conditional Branch Predictor
This paper presents the Alpha EV8 conditional branch predictor. The Alpha EV8 microprocessor project, canceled in June 2001 in a late phase of development, envisioned an aggressiv...
André Seznec, Stephen Felix, Venkata Krishn...
ADBIS
1995
Springer
155views Database» more  ADBIS 1995»
13 years 11 months ago
The MaStA I/O Cost Model and its Validation Strategy
Crash recovery in database systems aims to provide an acceptable level of protection from failure at a given engineering cost. A large number of recovery mechanisms are known, and...
S. Scheuerl, Richard C. H. Connor, Ronald Morrison...
SC
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Age based scheduling for asymmetric multiprocessors
Asymmetric (or Heterogeneous) Multiprocessors are becoming popular in the current era of multi-cores due to their power efficiency and potential performance and energy efficienc...
Nagesh B. Lakshminarayana, Jaekyu Lee, Hyesoon Kim
ISCA
1991
IEEE
162views Hardware» more  ISCA 1991»
13 years 11 months ago
Comparison of Hardware and Software Cache Coherence Schemes
We use mean value analysis models to compare representative hardware and software cache coherence schemes for a large-scale shared-memory system. Our goal is to identify the workl...
Sarita V. Adve, Vikram S. Adve, Mark D. Hill, Mary...