In the last years high performance processor designs have evolved toward Chip-Multiprocessor (CMP) architectures that implement multiple processing cores on a single die. As the nu...
Impulse is a new memory system architecture that adds two important features to a traditional memory controller. First, Impulse supports application-specific optimizations through...
John B. Carter, Wilson C. Hsieh, Leigh Stoller, Ma...
Helper threading is a technique that utilizes a second core or logical processor in a multi-threaded system to improve the performance of the main thread. A helper thread executes...
Speculative Multi-Threading (SpMT) can improve single-threaded application performance using the multiple thread contexts available in current processors. We propose a minimal SpM...
Srikanth T. Srinivasan, Haitham Akkary, Tom Holman...
PARSEC is a reference application suite used in industry and academia to assess new Chip Multiprocessor (CMP) designs. No investigation to date has profiled PARSEC on real hardwa...
Major Bhadauria, Vincent M. Weaver, Sally A. McKee